"It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness)."

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The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the barbarians. Many are the resources of courage and poverty.

— Edward Gibbon