Status Updates From Tratados sobre la vida buena

"No puede tener una vida tranquila quien solo piensa en prolongarla y cuenta entre sus bienes más grandes el número de cónsules que ha visto."

“But what is it that this rationality requires of him? The easiest thing of all: to live in accordance with his own nature. It is our shared insanity that makes this difficult: we push one another into faults. And how can we be recalled to health, when all people drive us forward and no one holds us back?”