The study of philosophy is not to be postponed until you have leisure. We must resist the affairs which occupy our time. They must not be untangled but rather put out of the way. The joy of a wise man is a woven fabric, rent by no chance happening and by no change of fortune. At all times and in all places he is at peace. For his joy depends on nothing, external, and looks for no boon from man or fortune. His happiness is something within himself. It would depart from his soul if it entered in from the outside. Instead it is born there. There are external disadvantages like pimples and boils that break out upon a body which is normally strong and