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"is like that most agreeable of all Sleep, which we enjoy ——
"sometimes without any dreams, or Interruptions, Good Gods!
"what a happy thing it is to die! how many days of ones life
"could one pick out, that have been passed more agreably
"than such a night? and if all eternity is to be spent in
"that manner, who is so happy as I? but if it is true that
"death is a transition, to those regions which are inhabited
"by those who have departed this life; that will be still
"better. is it a little thing, that after I have escaped from
"these pretended Judges, I am to go to those who are so in
"reality; Minos, Rhadamanthus, Aeacus, and Triptolemus?
"and to meet those, who have lived with justice and honour?
"besides how valuable would the conversation be of Orpheus,
"Musaeus, Homer, and Hesiod? indeed I have even often ——
"wished to die, for that reason only. how it would delight
"me to meet with Palamedes, and Ajax; who were ——
"condemned by an unjust Sentence: and to try the sagacity
"of that great king, who led the Grecian forces to Troy, of
"Sysiphus and Ulysses. nor should I then be condemned
"to death for my inquiries after truth, as I am here. —
"neither do you, Oye Judges! you, I mean, who would have
"acquitted me, be afraid of death: for no Evil can happen
"to a good man either in this World or the other. nor are
"his Affairs over neglected by the Immortal Gods; for
"neither did this happen to me by chance. nor have I any

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Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	114	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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