from different sides, but with different eyes;
we have no wish to find them alike.

125. Contraries.--Man is naturally credulous and incredulous, timid and
rash.

126. Description of man: dependency, desire of independence, need.

127. Condition of man: inconstancy, weariness, unrest.

128. The weariness which is felt by us in leaving pursuits to which we are
attached. A man dwells at home with pleasure; but if he sees a woman who
charms him, or if he enjoys himself in play for five or six days, he is
miserable if he returns to his former way of living. Nothing is more common
than that.

129. Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

130. Restlessness.--If a soldier, or labourer, complain of the hardship of
his lot, set him to do nothing.

131. Weariness.--Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at
rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study.
He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his
dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from
the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation,
despair.

132. Methinks Caesar was too old to set about amusing himself with
conquering the world. Such sport was good for Augustus or Alexander. They
were still young men and thus difficult to restrain. But Caesar should have
been more mature.

133. Two faces which resemble each other make us laugh, when together, by
th