The Philosophers' Magazine

Issue 55, 4th quarter 2011

Best of luck

John Sellars
Pages 72-76

Tough luck

The worst thing that can happen to us is to be blessed with a life of unending luxury, comfort, and wealth, for such a life would make one weak and lazy. But worst of all, the longer we experience a comfortable and easy life, the harder it will hit us when our luck fi nally changes, as it surely one day will.