Pleasure chews and grinds us; according to the old Greek verse, which … — Essays
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Pleasure chews and grinds us; according to the old Greek verse, which says that the gods sell us all the goods they give us; that is to say, that they give us nothing pure and perfect, and that we do not purchase but at the price of some evil.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (WLC), CC BY 4.0