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Maupertuis however tells us that the balance of pains & pleasures is on the
ill-being side. Horace's Aqui Ligna fit Mæcenas or something like it is the burthen
of his strain. Man desires to better his condition to acquire for the future something
not possessed by the present. Well & what does this prove? Why that to the balance
already existing in favour of well being there exists in the breast of every man one
element more of well being – the pleasure of expectation, – the pleasure of hope.
But no it may be said it is not for the increase of a balance on the side
of pleasure that a man looks forward & labours for a change of condition, it is for the diminution of a balance on the side of pain.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	185	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	linking material	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f48
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	5401
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