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Objection 1: It would seem that sleep and baths do not assuage sorrow.
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Objection 1: It would seem that tears do not assuage sorrow.
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Objection 1: It would seem that the contemplation of truth does not assuage sorrow.
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Therefore the contemplation of truth does not assuage sorrow.
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Therefore it seems that tears do not assuage sorrow.
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Therefore they do not assuage sorrow.
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At length there recurred, somehow, to my mind the words which, impressive though they be, never can assuage sorrow-thewords:
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For pleasure does not assuage sorrow, save in so far as it is contrary to it: for "remedies work by contraries" (Ethic.
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8), one pleasure hinders another; and yet every pleasure assuages sorrow.
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1: The normal disposition of the body, so far as it is felt, is itself a cause of pleasure, and consequently assuages sorrow.