Mi genio hace distinciones que mi entendimiento no puede
hacer y que mis sentidos no perciben
Diario 23 de julio de 1851
"Life is vain ('tis true) to those that make it so. And let those
cry vanity, for they have reason. For my own part, who never could be in
love with riches or the world, nor ever made any great matter of life, so as to
love it for its own sake, I have therefore no falling out with it, now at last
when I can no longer keep it; so without calling names or giving hard words, I
can part freely with and give it a good testimony. No harm in it all that I
know; no vanity. But (if one wills oneself) a fair, honest, sensible
thing it is, and not so uncomfortable as it is made. No, nor so
over-comfortable as to make one melancholy at the thoughts of parting with it,
or as to make one think the time exceeding short and passing. For
why so short if not sound and sweet?"
(Shaftesbury to a friend, 2 December 1705)
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