By Willard Van Orman Quine
ISBN-10: 0674323513
ISBN-13: 9780674323513
9 Logico-Philosophical Essays, moment Revised version
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Take into account the further fact that it is to everyone’s benefit that all the best men become soldiers, so to speak, and do service. God’s purpose, and the wise man’s, too, is to show that what ordinary men desire, and what they fear, are not either goods or evils; but it will appear that there are goods, if these are granted only to good men, and that there are evils, if these penalize only bad men. Blindness will earn men’s curses if no one loses his eyes except the man who merits having them ripped out; therefore let an Appius and a Metellus* be denied the daylight.
His skin is pierced by nails, and wherever he rests his exhausted frame he lies upon a wound; his eyes stare out in unending sleeplessness: yet On Providence 9 the greater his torture is, the greater will be his fame. Do you wish to know how little he regrets that he set virtue at such a price? Set him free from the cross and send him back to the senate: he will state the same opinion. Do you, then, consider Maecenas a more fortunate man, who, distressed by affairs of the heart and lamenting the daily rebuffs of a cantankerous wife,* would seek sleep by means of harmonious music playing softly at a distance?
Fortune lays into us with the whip and tears our flesh: let us endure it. It is not cruelty but a contest, and the more often we engage in it, the stronger our hearts will be: the sturdiest part of the body is the one that is kept in constant use. We must offer ourselves to Fortune so that in struggling with her we may be hardened by her: little by little she will make us a match for her, and constant exposure to risk will make us despise dangers. So the bodies of mariners are tough from the buffeting of the sea, the hands of farmers calloused, the muscles of soldiers strong to enable them to hurl the javelin, the legs of athletes agile: in each case the part of the body exercised is the strongest.
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