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The ordinary man who loves comfort and desires possessions, property, or position is not acting wrongly. He is wrong when he lets himself get tied to them and suffers intensely at their loss. The philosopher may also have these things, but there is this difference: that he will be inwardly free of them.

-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 5 : The Philosopher > # 106