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motion; complete rest is death.

130. Restlessness.--If a soldier, or labourer, complain of the hardship of
his lot, set him to do nothing.

131. Weariness.--Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at
rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study.
He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his
dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from
the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation,
despair.

132. Methinks Caesar was too old to set about amusing himself with
conquering the world. Such sport was good for Augustus or Alexander. They
were still young men and thus difficult to restrain. But Caesar should have
been more mature.

133. Two faces which resemble each other make us laugh, when together, by
their resemblance, though neither of them by itself makes us laugh.

134. How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance
of things, the originals of which we do not admire!

135. The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. We love to see animals
fighting, not the victor infuriated over the vanquished. We would only see
the victorious end; and, as soon as it comes, we are satiated. It is the
same in play, and the same in the s