ABSTRACT
When useless servitude has been alleviated as far as possible, and unnecessary misfortune avoided, there will still remain as a test of a man's fortitude that long series of veritable ills, death, old age and incurable sickness, love unrequited and friendship rejected or betrayed, the mediocrity of a life less vast than our projects and duller than our dreams: in short, all the woes caused by the divine nature of things.
