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shall not be so in the next: we have done this in that
book, in which we gave as much consolation as we cou'd.
Death therefore takes us away from Ills, not from ——
Good Things, if the truth were known. and this was so if —
fully explained by Hegesias a Cyrenaean, that he was said
to have been forbid teaching those things in the Schools by
king Ptolemy: for many upon hearing him had —
killed themselves. there is an Epigram of Callimachus
upon Ambraciotes Cleombrotus; who, he says, without
any thing having happened to ruffle him, only by having
read Plato's book, threw himself down from a Wall into
the Sea. there is a book of Hegesias's called ἀποχαρτερῶν in which he tells
us, that when he was dying of hunger, he was recovered
by his friends, in answer to whom, he enumerates all the
Evils of human life. I could do that myself; tho' not
so as he: who thinks that life is a blessing to none at
all, whatsoever. without mentioning others, would it
have been a blessing to us, if we had died before, when
deprived of all foreign and Domestic comforts, and
Death would have taken us away from the midst of
Evils; instead of happiness? suppose that One, who had ——
nothing to complain of from fortune, that Metellus
for instance, who had four Sons all advanced to the
highest honours, but Priam had fifty, Seventeen
of whom were born of a lawful wife, Fortune had the
same power over both of them; but she used it only in one.

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Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	109	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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