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9. Now, no one is so egregiously silly as to ask, "How do you
know that a life of unchangeable wisdom is preferable to one of
change?" For that very truth about which he asks, how I know it?
is unchangeably fixed in the minds of all men, and presented to their
common contemplation. And the man who does not see it is like a blind
man in the sun, whom it profits nothing that the splendor of its
light, so clear and so near, is poured into his very eye-balls. The
man, on the other hand, who sees, but shrinks from this truth, is
weak in his mental vision from dwelling long among the shadows of the
flesh. And thus men are driven back from their native land by the
contrary blasts of evil habits, and pursue lower and less valuable
objects in preference to that which they own to be more excellent and
more worthy.
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