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but without any sense of pain as well as pleas- 

 ure : and to enjoy himself in the midst of dis- 

 eases and torments, as well as of health and 

 ease : a principle, in my mind, against common 

 nature and common sense ; and which might 

 have told us in fewer words, or with less circum- 

 stance that aman, to be wise, should not be a man ; 

 and this perhaps might have been easy enough 

 to believe, but nothing so hard as the other. 



The Epicureans were more intelligible in 

 their notion, and fortunate in their expression, 

 when they placed a man's happiness in the 

 tranquillity of mind and indolence of body ; for 

 while we are composed of both, I doubt both 

 must have a share in the good or ill we feel. 

 As men of several languages say the same things 

 in very different words, so in several ages, coun- 

 tries, constitutions of laws and religion, the 

 same thing seems to be meant by very different 

 expressions : what is called by the Stoics apa- 

 thy or dispassion, by the Sceptics indisturb- 

 ance, by the Molinists quietism, by common 

 men peace of conscience, seems all to mean 

 but great tranquillity of mind, though it be 

 made to proceed from so diverse causes, as 

 human wisdom, innocence of life, or resignation 

 to the will of God. An old usurer had the same 

 notion, when he said : No man could have peace 

 of conscience, that run out of his estate ; not 



