The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

the more fool

A cedar stump, worn velvety by time, next to a well-traveled trail

Those who consider everything in relation to its usefulness for them, and who measure happiness by the possession of the goods of fortune, should remember that they are grasping fragile and unstable goods that are often destructive for those who own them, and that by the movement of one moment their entire happiness and they themselves can be completely overturned.

—Philip Melanchthon (‘Preface to Homer’, in Orations on Philosophy and Education, trans. Christine F. Salazar, p. 53)


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