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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?
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537 |
Tusculan Questions |
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118 |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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