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Rh affect sometimes a firmness and a contempt of death, which is, in fact, only the fear of looking it in the face; so that it may be said that this firmness, and this contempt, are to their minds what the bandage is to their eyes.

Philosophy trimnphs easily over past, and over future evils, but present evils triumph over pMlosophy.

Few people know what death is. We seldom suffer it from resolution, but from stupidity