Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections.
