![]() ![]() With the help of the few paltry coins he had collected by begging this man was enjoying the temporal happiness for which I strove by so bitter, devious and roundabout a contrivance. Yet while all our efforts were directed solely to the attainment of unclouded joy, it appeared that this beggar had already beaten us to the goal, a goal which we would perhaps never reach ourselves. ![]() ![]() Goaded by greed, I was dragging my load of unhappiness along, and feeling it all the heavier for being dragged. I groaned and pointed out to the friends who were with me how many hardships our idiotic enterprises entailed. As I passed through a certain district in Milan I noticed a poor beggar, drunk, as I believe, and making merry. I was preparing to deliver a eulogy upon the emperor in which I would tell plenty of lies with the object of winning favor with the well-informed by my lying so my heart was panting with anxiety and seething with feverish, corruptive thoughts. “I recall how miserable I was, and how one day you brought me to a realization of my miserable state. ![]()
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