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Man possessing thses strong passions is capable of the most astonishing actions, but it is not so with those who destory themselves from a distaste of life, these are not able to bear pain, nor is their contempt of life the effect of strong passions, but on the contrary to a privation of them, they find upon a calculation that it is better not to exist at all than to exist unhappily, this disposition renders him unfit for great things, for whoever is tir'd of life troubles himself little with the affairs of the World.

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