have equal pleasure, if any one measures its limits by
- “If the flesh could experience boundless pleasure, it would want to dispose of eternity.6
- “But reason, enabling us to conceive the end and dissolution of the body, and liberating us from the fears relative to eternity, procures for us all the happiness of which life is capable, so completely that we have no further occasion to include eternity in our desires. In this disposition of mind, man is happy even when his troubles engage him to quit life; and to die thus, is for him only to interrupt a life of happiness.
- “He who is acquainted with the limits of life knows, that that which removes the pain which arises from want, and which makes the whole of life perfect, is easily procurable; so that he has no need of those things which can only be attained with trouble.
- “But as to the subsisting end, we ought to consider it with all the clearness and evidence which we refer to