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all the misfortunes of men arise from one thing only, that they are unable to stay quietly in their own chamber
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Nothing is so insupportable to man as to be completely at rest, without passion, without business, without diversion, without study.
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Without diversion no joy, with diversion no sadness.
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Who does not see from all this that man has gone astray, that he has fallen from his place, that he seeks it with disquiet, that he cannot regain it?