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Time is nothing more than that form of the principle of sufficient reason, and has no further significance. Succession is the whole nature of time. Health overweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king.
Time is nothing more than that form of the principle of sufficient reason, and has no further significance. Succession is the whole nature of time. Health overweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king.
Approximate author period: c. 1824 AD · industrial
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- Arthur Schopenhauer
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- Approximate author period: c. 1824 AD · industrial
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Supplied reference B; unit 1046; PDF page 110; printed attribution: Arthur Schopenhauer
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