The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
