Spvde Monologue from A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure

From A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure by Desiderius Erasmus

male · philosophical · 1:02 min

You haue shewed a very mery fable HEDON. But nowe heare that thing, which you wil not laugh at: the commune people seeke too haue a pleasaunt life in outwarde thynges, where as noothyng can yeoue that, but onely a constant and a quiet mind: for surely a far heuier stone hangeth ouer these that grudge with them selues, then hanged ouer Tantalus: it only hangeth not ouer them, but greueth and || oppresseth the mynde, ne the mind is not troubled wyth any vayn hoope, but looketh euery houre to bee caste in too the paynes of hell, I praye you what can bee so pleasaunt emongist all thinges that bee yeouen vnto man, that coulde reioyse the mynde, whyche were oppressed wyth suche a stoone?

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