CHuman wisdom very stupidly exercises its ingenuity to reduce the number and the sweetness of the sensual pleasures that belong to us, just as she does favorably and industriously in using her artifices to trick out and disguise our ills and to alleviate our sense of them. If the decision had been up to me, I should have taken another course, one that would have been more natural—which is to say, true, practicable, and holy; and I might perhaps have made myself strong enough to set bounds to it.
