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Yes, indeed, I replied, and equally incompatible with the

management of a house, an army, or an office of state; and, what

is most important of all, irreconcileable with any kind of study

or thought or self-reflection-there is a constant suspicion that

headache and giddiness are to be ascribed to philosophy, and

hence all practising or making trial of virtue in the higher

sense is absolutely stopped; for a man is always fancying that he

is being made ill, and is in constant anxiety about the state of

his body.

Yes, likely enough.