last delight meditation understanding; yearn goods, victory, knowledge — Durant, Story Philosophy: Lives Opinions World’s Greatest Philosophers

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And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

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