Future Perfect

by Peter Saint-Andre

Conduct your life so that, in later days,
It will have given you the highest pleasure
To contemplate your lifetime's many ways —
Thus making, at the end, yourself the measure.

(cf. Human, All Too Human, Volume II, Part I, ยง167)


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