| To be a good benign being is to be enduring a make of openness to the mankind, an cleverness to guardianship undeterminable things beyond your own pilot, that can govern you to be shattered in very exceptional circumstances pro which you were not to blame. That says something uncommonly outstanding thither the condition of the principled life: that it is based on a conviction in the unpredictable and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something kind of fragile, but whose very special beauty is inseparable from that fragility.
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