hardly means anything more than “prudently and apart.” Wisdom: that seems to the populace to be a kind of flight, a means and artifice for withdrawing successfully from a bad game; but the genuine philosopher—does it not seem so to us , my friends?—lives “unphilosophically” and “unwisely,” above all, imprudently , and feels the obligation and burden of a hundred attempts and temptations of life—he risks himself constantly, he plays this bad game.
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