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If you turn your attention to externals for the pleasure of anyone, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life. Be content, in everything, with being a philosopher. If you wish to seem so likewise to anyone, appear so to yourself, and it will suffice you. The audience you need is the one already sitting in your own skull. Recruiting a second audience is how the scheme comes down.
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The ruin is not being seen. The ruin is rearranging the inner rule so that someone else's pleasure becomes the point. Seem a philosopher to yourself. That is the only review that can be collected on time.
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