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Thoughts.—In omnibus requiem qu?sivi.[77] If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
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Diversion.—Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than is the thought of death without peril.
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The miseries of human life have established all this: as men have seen this, they have taken up diversion.
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