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always attended with some sort of pleasure or other our attachment therefore to life proceeds from the fear of pain & love of pleasure, the poor unhappy Man dies with less regret, the prosperous & oppulent tremble for the last minute, from hence it follows that the desire of being happy exceeds even the desire of existing, & to obtain the object in which we have fix'd our happiness, we are capable of exposing ourselves to all dangers, dangers that are greater or less according to the intensity of our desires for the object coveted; therefore to be divested of all courage is to be absolutely free from all desires, & from hence it follows that the most courageous Nation will ever exist under a Government where valour is the