Volume II Part 42 (1/2)
”But ill your lover say?”
”He will be delighted to see me happy with such a lover as you It is in his nature”
”What an admirable nature! Such heroism is quite beyond me!”
”What sort of a life do you lead in Venice?”
”I live at the theatres, in society, in the casinos, where I fight against fortune soood son ambassadors?”
”No, because I am too much acquainted with the nobility; but I know them all”
”How can you know them if you do not see them?”
”I have known there, the Spanish a; in Paris, about two years ago, the French ambassador”
”It is near twelve o'clock, my dear friend; it is time for us to part
Coive you all the instructions which you will require to enable you to come and sup with me”
”Alone?”
”Of course”
”May I venture to ask you for a pledge? The happiness which you proe do you want?”
”To see you standing before that s with permission for me to occupy the same place as Madaracious s; after a most expressive kiss, I took leave of her She followed aze would have rooted me to the spot if she had not left the room
I spent the two days of expectation in a whirl of i; for it seeivento be happy for the first time
Irrespective of birth, beauty, and hich was the principal merit of my new conquest, prejudice was there to enhance a hundredfold my felicity, for she was a vestal: it was forbidden fruit, and who does not know that, from Eve down to our days, it was that fruit which has always appeared the hts of an all-powerful husband; in my eyes M---- M---- was above all the queens of the earth
If my reason had not been the slave of passion, I should have known that my nun could not be a different creature from all the pretty women who in the fields of love But where is the ht? If it presents itself too often to his mind, he expels it disdainfully! M---- M---- could not by any means be otherwise than superior to all other women in the orld
Anidoh instinct the three various means necessary for the perpetuation of its species
There are three real wants which nature has implanted in all human creatures Theyinsipid and tedious they have the agreeable sensation of appetite, which they feel pleasure in satisfying They ate their respective species; an absolute necessity which proves the wisdom of the Creator, since without reproduction all would, be annihilated--by the constant law of degradation, decay and death And, whatever St
Augustine eneration if they did not find pleasure in it, and if there was not in that great work an irresistible attraction for them In the third place, all creatures have a determined and invincible propensity to destroy their enemies; and it is certainly a very wise ordination, for that feeling of self-preservation makes it a duty for them to do their best for the destruction of whatever can injure them
Each species obeys these laws in its oay The three sensations: hunger, desire, and hatred--are in animals the satisfaction of habitual instinct, and cannot be called pleasures, for they can be so only in proportion to the intelligence of the individual Man alone is gifted with the perfect organs which render real pleasure peculiar to hi, endoith the sublime faculty of reason, he foresees enjoyment, looks for it, coht and recollection I entreat you, dear reader, not to get weary of following s; for now that I am but the shadow of the once brilliant Casanova, I love to chatter; and if you were to give
Man coives hi reason and judgives perfect equilibrium to those propensities, the sensations derived froives us what is called happiness, and which we experience without being able to describe it