Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.

And why should man, added he, pretend to an exemption from the lot of all other animals? The whole earth, believe me, PHILO, is cursed and polluted. A perpetua…

Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organised, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. B…

In such a chain, too, or succession of objects, each part is caused by that which preceded it, and causes that which succeeds it. Where then is the difficulty?…

?Que os espanta, si fue mi maestro un sueno, y estoy temiendo, en mis ansias, que he de despertar y hallarme otra vez en mi cerrada prision? Y cuando no sea, e…

La philosophie triomphe aisement des maux passes et des maux a venir. Mais les maux presents triomphent d'elle.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.