consequently, the more are we incited to increase both the one and the
plunged into the deepest sadness. (3) Fame has the further drawback
opinions of their fellow-men.html">men, shunning what they usually shun, and
be obstacles in the way of a search for something different and new -
have to be abandoned, I was forced to inquire which would prove the
hold on a sure good.html">good.html">good for the sake.html">sake.html">sake of something uncertain. (6:2) However,
conclusion that by abandoning the ordinary objects of pursuit, and
by reason of its own nature, as may be gathered from what has been
for a fixed good), but only in the possibility of its attainment.
[7] (1) Further reflection convinced me that if I could really get
certain good. (2) I thus perceived that I was in a state of great
remedy.html">remedy.html">remedy.html">remedy, however uncertain it might be; as a sick man struggling with
unless a remedy be found, is compelled to seek a remedy with all his
objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends
not seldom of those who possess them, [b] and always of those who
even to death for the sake of their riches, and of men who in pursuit
paid away their life as a penalty for their folly. (2) Examples are
the sake of gaining or preserving their reputation. (3) Lastly,
over-indulgence in sensual pleasure.
[9] (1) All these evils seem to have arisen from the fact, that
of the object which we love.html">love. (2) When a thing.html">thing is not loved, no
hatred, in short no disturbances of the mind. (3) All these
already mentioned.
[10] (1) But love towards a thing eternal and infinite feeds the
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