“The same person often changes his mind; for when he has fallen ill, he thinks happiness is health, and when he has fallen into poverty he thinks it is wealth. And when they are conscious of their own ignorance, they admire anyone who speaks of something grand and above their heads.”
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“We cannot learn without pain.”
“What prompts us to action is desire; and desire has three forms—appetite, passion, wish.”