We are completely perplexed, then, and you must clear up the question for us, of what you intend to signify when you use the word “being”. Obviously you must be quite familiar with what you mean, whereas we, who formerly imagined we knew, are now at a loss.
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For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakeable.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.
