One Good Eye
May, 1982
from the Contes Philosophiques of Voltaire, 1760Possessing two eyes does not give us any great advantage. One of them serves to show us the good things of life and the other, its evils. Many people have fallen into the habit of shutting the first eye--hence a great deal of our present discontent. Lucky the man who has been blinded in his evil-seeing eye! And of this Mesrour was an example.He had been born that way, but he was so contented with his condition that it never occurred to him to wish...
