Poverty, humility, and chastity are not virtues that philosophers choose because they are virtuous, but rather the necessary conditions for pursuing their supreme project (truth-seeking); the philosopher rejects wealth and desires because these come with obligations that distract from his work.
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“Poverty humility Chastity look at the lives of all great fruitful inventive Spirits close up one will always find all three to a certain degree certainly not as goes without saying as if these were their virtues but rather because their Supreme Lord philosophy demands it of them”
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