Men cannot enjoy wealth by reason of trouble; yet men earnestly seek
it, 499. Vice is sufficient of itself to produce misery; it needs no
aid from instruments, 500. Poverty, slavery, war, external calamity
of every sort, even death in cruel forms, may be borne by a heroic
spirit, 501. In India, widows burn with joy on the funeral pile of
their husbands, 502. All the ills of Fortune cannot produce misery,
without Vice; but Vice ruins and destroys, 503.