"Anxiety most of all characterizes the human animal. This is perhaps the most general
name for all the vices at a certain mean level of their operation. It is a kind of
cupidity, a kind of fear, a kind of envy, a kind of hate. Now, a favored recluse, I can,
as anxiety diminishes, measure both my freedom and my previous servitude. Fortunate are
they who are even sufficiently aware of this problem to make the smallest efforts to check
this dimming preoccupation. Perhaps without the circumstances of a dedicated life it is
impossible to make more than the smallest efforts."
--The Black Prince.
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