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what was enough for you as I thought in a few words:
for you had allowed that the dead suffer no Evil. but
I contended, to that very intent that I might say more
upon it, because in grief that is the greatest ——
consolation. for we should bear our pain and that
which is undergone for our own sake, patiently; least
we should seem to be too much influenced by self
love: that Opinion causes intolerable pain to us,
if we imagine those of whom we are deprived, to be
sensible of any pains which are vulgarly esteemed so.
I had a mind to root that opinion out entirely, and
on that account have been, I am afraid too long Auditor.
you too long? not to me indeed. for the first part of
your discourse made me desirous of death; the latter
sometimes not unwilling, sometimes regardless: but
in the whole discourse I never once reckoned death —
an Evil. Marcus. do you now desire the Epilogue of
a Rhetorician, or do we altogether leave that Art?
Auditor. do not leave it pray which you have always
set off in a good light: and not without reason indeed;
for that has always shewn you off to the best ——
Advantage. but what is that Epilogue? for I —
should like to hear it, whatsoever it is. Marcus.
they used to give in the Schools instances of the
Judgment of the Gods concerning death; nor did they

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Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	118	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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