Wisdom – seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But the genuine philosopher – as it seems to us, my friends? – lives ‘unphilosophically’ and ‘unwisely,’ above all imprudently, and feels the burden and the duty of a hundred attempts and temptations of life – he risks himself constantly, he plays the wicked game.

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