Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a\u00a0healthy\u00a0beggar is happier than an ailing king. A quiet and cheerful temperament, happy in the enjoyment of a perfectly sound physique, an intellect clear, lively, penetrating and seeing things as they are, a moderate and gentle will, and therefore a good conscience\u2014these are privileges which no rank\u00a0or wealth can make up for or replace. For what a man is in himself, what accompanies him when he is alone, what no one can give or take away, is obviously more essential to him than everything he has in the way of\u00a0possessions, or even what he may be in the eyes of the world.<\/p>\n
An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theatres, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard. A good, temperate, gentle character can be happy in needy circumstances, whilst a covetous, envious and malicious man, even if he be the richest in the world, goes miserable. Nay more; to one who has the constant delight of a special individuality, with a high degree of intellect, most of the pleasures which are run after by mankind are simply superfluous; they are even a trouble and a burden.<\/p>\n
And so Horace says of himself, that, however many are deprived of the fancy\u2212goods of life, there is one at least who can live without them:
\nGemmas, marmor, ebur, Tyrrhena sigilla, tabellas,
\nArgentum, vestes, Gaetulo murice tinctas
\nSunt qui non habeant, est qui\u00a0non curat habere;<\/p>\n
and when Socrates saw various articles of luxury spread out for sale, he exclaimed:
\nHow much there is in the world I do not want.<\/p>\n
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\nThe wisdom of life<\/strong><\/em>
\nARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"