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We should treat it as the enemy of our happiness, and stifle it like an evil thought. This is the advice given by Seneca; as he well puts it, we shall be pleased with what we have, if we avoid the self-torture of comparing our own lot with some other and happier one nostra nos sine comparatione delectent; nunquam erit felix quem torquebit felicior.
"Vulgus interdum," says Cicero, "non probandum oratorem probat, sed probat sine comparatione, cùm
Spirit. c. xiv. p. 14: "Si dicerent tibi aliquid quod sit contra fidem, et contra Scripturam Sacram, aut contra bonos mores, ahhorreas earum visionem et judicia, tanquam stultas dementias, et earum raptus, sicut rabiamenta" which word the Saint translates by "rabiamientos." Psalm liv. 7: "Quis dabit mihi pennas sicut columbae?" Job iv. 17: "Numquid homo Dei comparatione justificabitur?"
Pompeius omnia pollicetur et Caesar, do quibus ita credo, ut nihil de mea comparatione deminuam." Ad Quintum Fratrem, i. 2. From the fermentation of Roman politics, the passions of the Forum and Senate, the corrupt tribunals, the poisoned centre of the Empire, the story passes beyond the frontier of Italy. We no longer depend for our account of Caesar on the caricatures of rival statesmen.
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