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We like the chase better than the quarry.... And those who philosophize on the matter, and who think men unreasonable for spending ...
If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which pr ...
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
Thus passes away all man's life. Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest become ...
Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escapin ...
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. We love to see animals fighting, not the victor raving over the vanquished.... It ...
So wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness from the peculiar state of his disposition; and so fri ...
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