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Antoll MA

2008-01-14 22:40:35 UTC

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misfortune has little to do with the matter. I sometimes struggle against
luck, the glory of mastering it makes me master it gaily; whereas I am
sometimes surfeited in the midst of good fortune.

108. Although people may have no interest in what they are saying, we must
not absolutely conclude from this that they are not lying; for there are
some people who lie for the mere sake of lying.

109. When we are well we wonder what we would do if we were ill, but when we
are ill we take medicine cheerfully; the illness persuades us to do so. We
have no longer the passions and desires for amusements and promenades which
health gave to us, but which are incompatible with the necessities of
illness. Nature gives us, then, passions and desires suitable to our present
state. We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give
ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the
state in which we are not.

As nature makes us always unhappy in every state, our desires picture to us
a happy state; because they add to the state in which we are the pleasures
of the state in which we are not. And if we attained to these pleasures, we
should not be happy after all; because we should have other desires natural
to this new state.

We must particularise this general proposition....

110. The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the
ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

111. Inconstancy.--We think we are playing on ordinary organs when playing
upon man. Men are organs, it is