_Misery._--The only thing which consoles us for our miseries is diversion, and yet this it the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves, and which makes us insensibly ruin ourselves. Without this we should be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

Place: Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] · ¶517
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_Misery._--The only thing which consoles us for our miseries is divers… — Pensées