Re: Help, my cat is a serial killer!

particular pursuit, it is enough to comprehend
them under diversion.

138. Men naturally slaters and of all callings, save in their own rooms.

139. Diversion.--When I have occasionally set myself to consider the
different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose
themselves at court or in war, whence arise so many quarrels, passions, bold
and often bad ventures, etc., I have discovered that all the unhappiness of
men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own
chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to stay with
pleasure at home, would not leave it to go to sea or to besiege a town. A
commission in the army would not be bought so dearly, but that it is found
insufferable not to budge from the town; and men only seek conversation and
entering games, because they cannot remain with pleasure at home.

But, on further consideration, when, after finding the cause of all our
ills, I have sought to discover the reason of it, I have found that