Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.Saint Augustine
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The playthings of our elders are called business.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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