Friday, April 5, 2013

BOOK 5 -29


You can live here in this world just as you intend to live when you have left it. But if this is allowed you, then you should depart life itself - but not as if this were some misfortune. 'The fire smokes and I leave the house.' Why think this any big matter? But as long as no such thing drives me out, I remain a free man and no one will prevent me doing what I wish to do: and my wish is to follow the nature of a rational and social being.

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