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To trace the various sources whence, in the present life, we derive pleasure, is a task, it will readily be admitted, replete with interest.

No virtuous man lives entirely for enjoyment, yet no wise one would be altogether debarred from it.

The Stoic and the Epicurean, by hurrying to the extremes of rigour and of laxity, have mutually committed errors. To thwart the instincts of Nature on the one hand, and, on the other, to give a loose rein to the wild steeds of our passions, are. acts that evince an. equal degree of folly.

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