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Auditor. Well, come then I must allow that they who are—
dead are not miserable, since you have forced me to it, as I
must confess. that they who don't exist, can't be miserable
but what? are not we who live, miserable: when death
approaches? for what true enjoyment can there be in
life, when day and night we are tormented with the——
reflexion that we mayn't perhaps have one Hour to live?
Marcus do you see — how much Evil you have taken off
from human Nature? Auditor. how? Marcus. because if
death were the cause of misery even to the dead themselves,
we should have an infinite and everlasting Evil in Life.
now I see the Point: to which when we have ran, there
is nothing farther to be feared. but you seem to be of the
Opinion of Epicharmus a shrewd sensible man, as a Sicilian.
Auditor, what is that, for I don't know it? Marcus. I
will tell you, if I can, after the Latin Manner, for you
know I as often speak Latin after the Greek manner, as
Greek after the Latin. Auditor. and with propriety indeed,
but what is this Opinion of Epicharmus? Marcus. it is
this "I don't wish for Death; but I am not over desirous
of life." Auditor. I already perceive the Grecian. but since
you have forced me to allow, that the dead are not ——
miserable, make me think, if you can, that death is no
evil. Marcus. that is nothing; for I am even scheming
greater things. Auditor. how is this nothing? or what
are these greater things? Marcus. because since there

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Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	089	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Copy/fair sheet	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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