"Do you bid me," you say, "shun the throng, and withdraw from men, and be content with my own conscience?
Where are the counsels of your school, which order a man to die in the midst of active work?"
As to the course which I seem to you to be urging on you now and then, my object in shutting myself up and locking the door is to be able to help a greater number. I never spend a day in idleness; I appropriate even a part of the night for study.
I do not allow time for sleep but yield to it when...
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