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about misfortune. What a madness it is to expect something evil even before it comes? What you consider misfortune or adversity is nothing but an opportunity of us. An intelligent man creates more opportunity than what he gets."
"Vayarsen! The future anxiety above suspected happiness or unhappiness prevents a man from doing what he should do. If a man becomes free from such anxiety, then even the sky above. would come under his feet."
"But brother........" said Vayarsen after pausing for some time. "Let us take it that we can leave aside anxiety. about happiness or unhappiness; but how can we leave aside hope for happiness? Who has ever been able to abandon hope? Moreover, it is hope alone which encourages to advance further. If memory is a thing of the past, hope is a messenger of the future. If there were nothing like hope, man would become completey idle."
