Volume II Part 24 (1/2)
”Your question, irl, is not an easy one to answer, for moral philosophy does not know a more important one, or a more difficult one to decide; it is a lesson which lasts throughout life I will tell you in a feords that we call prejudice every so-called duty for the existence of which we find no reason in nature”
”Then nature must be the philosopher's principal study?”
”Indeed it is; the most learned of philosophers is the one who commits the fewest errors”
”What philosopher, in your opinion, has committed the smallest quantity of errors?”
”Socrates”
”Yet he was in error sometimes?”
”Yes, in metaphysics”
”Oh! never e without that study”
”You are mistaken; morals are only the ive you leave to consider as a madman whoever tells you that he has made a new discovery in ht appear rather obscure to you Proceed slowly, think; let your , and keep your happiness in view; in the end you ht ive me to-morrow; for I have an idea that it eary me, and now I am much interested”
”How do you know that you are interested?”
”Because I wish you not to leave me”
”Truly, my dear Vesian, never has a philosopher described sympathy better than you have just done How happy I feel! How is it that I wish to prove it by kissing you?”
”No doubt because, to be happy, the soul ree with the senses”
”Indeed, ”
”It is your work, dear friend; and I arateful to you that I share your desires”
”What is there to prevent us fro such natural desires? Let us embrace one another tenderly”
What a lesson in philosophy! It seemed to us such a sweet one, our happiness was so co one another, and it was only e parted in thethat we discovered that the door of the rooave her a few lessons, and she was received at the opera; but she did not re her conduct carefully according to the precepts I had laid out for her
She never received Narbonne again, and at last accepted a nobleman who proved hi he did was toaccording to the fashi+on of those days I do not recollect his name exactly; it was Count of Tressan or Trean She behaved in a respectable way, and remained with hih she is living in very easy circumstances; but she is fifty-six, and in Paris a wo the living
After she left the Hotel de Bourgogne, I never spoke to her Whenever I met her covered with jewels and diamonds, our souls saluted each other with joy, but her happiness was too precious for ainst it Her brother found a situation, but I lost sight of him
CHAPTER IX
The Beautiful O-Morphi--The Deceitful Painter--I Practice Cabalism for the duchess de Chartres I Leave Paris--My Stay in Dresden and My Departure from that City
I went to St Lawrence's Fair withit into his head to sup with a Fleo with hiirl, but what can we refuse to a friend? I did as he wished After we had supped with the actress, Patu fancied a night devoted to a reeable occupation, and as I did not want to leave hi the night
Morphi had a sister, a slovenly girl of thirteen, who told ive her a crown she would abandon her bed to reed to her proposal, and she took me to a small closet where I found a straw palliasse on four pieces of wood