most dear! O man! the wretched sport of passion, this
true felicity, that you seek with so much ardour, you
have within yourself while you sacrifice it to a chimera.
Be more bounded in your wishes of happiness, and you
will, in effect, obtain it. Enjoy what is within your grasp,
what nature grants you, and desire will be satisfied. If it
were possible that the laws could forbid a man having
only one virtuous wife, order would be re-established;
then our wishes, our attentions would concentrate in her
alone; and mistresses, in their turn, would have only our
contempt.
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