up in looking out for the boar which his dogs have been hunting so hotly for
the last six hours. He requires nothing more. However full of sadness a man
may be, he is happy for the time, if you can prevail upon him to enter into
some amusement; and however happy a man may be, he will soon be discontented
and wretched, if he be not diverted and occupied by some passion or pursuit
which prevents weariness from overcoming him. Without amusement there is no
joy; with amusement there is no sadness. And this also constitutes the
happiness of persons in high position, that they have a number of people to
amuse them and have the power to keep themselves in this state.
Consider this. What is it to be superintendent, chancellor, first president,
but to be in a condition wherein from early morning a large number of people
come from all quarters to see them, so as not to leave them an hour in the
day in which they can think of themselves? And when they are in disgrace and
sent back to their country houses, where they lack neither wealth nor
servants to help them on occasion, they do not fail to be wretched and
desolate, because no one prevents them from thinking of themselves.
140. How does it happen that this man, so distressed at the death of his
wife and his only son, or who has some great lawsuit which annoys him, is
not at this moment sad, and that he seems so free from all painful and
disquieting thoughts? We need not wonder; for a ball has been served him,
and he must return it to his companion. He is occu
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