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Quotes from Edgar Saltus in The Philosophy of Disenchantment — Voltaire

1694–1778 France

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Happiness is but a dream, and only pain is real. I have thought so for eighty-four years, and I know of no better plan than to resign myself to the inevitable, and reflect that flies were born to be devoured by spiders, and man to be consumed by care.

Edgar Saltus in The Philosophy of Disenchantment (1885)

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