2/20 Each one hates life and longs for death. He, therefore, hates riches, and all things that are associated with life. People thus spend years in trying to overreach one another, so as to make others richer than themselves. In a race each one tries to keep behind; but as this leads to confusion, there is then a universal effort for each one to be first, so as to put his neighbor in the honorable position of the rear. |