Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.