TESTO DEL LIED

"The only thing which consoles us for our miseries is diversion"
di anonimo

The only thing which consoles us for our miseries is diversion,
and yet this is the greatest of our miseries.
For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves,
and which makes us insensibly ruin ourselves. Without this
we should be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us
to seek a more solid means of escaping from it.
But diversions amuse us and lead us unconsciously to death.