["Is life worth so much? We are compelled to withhold the mind from th… — Essays
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["Is life worth so much? We are compelled to withhold the mind from things to which we are accustomed; and, that we may live, we cease to live . . . . Do I conceive that they still live, to whom the respirable air, and the light itself, by which we are governed, is rendered oppressive?" --Pseudo-Gallus, Eclog., i. 155, 247.]
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