Multiple Choice
Schopenhauer says, "Life presents itself chiefly as a task-the task, I mean, of subsisting at all. If this is accomplished, life is a burden, and then there comes the second task of doing something with that which has been won-of warding off __________, which, like a bird of prey, hovers over us, ready to fall wherever it sees a life secure from need."
A) temptation
B) passions
C) morality
D) boredom
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