He owns, indeed, that he often gives himself some intermission from such melancholy reflections; but he observes, too, that, melancholy as they are, they give him pleasure.
[Greek: All empes pantas men odyromenos kai acheuon, Pollakis en megaroisi kathemenos hemeteroisin, Allote men te goo phrena terpomai, allote d' aute Pauomai; aipseros de koros kryeroio gooio] Hom.Od.

[Greek: D].

100 "Still in short intervals of _pleasing woe_, Regardful of the friendly dues I owe, I to the glorious dead, forever dear, _Indulge_ the tribute of a _grateful_ tear." On the other hand, when we recover our health, when we escape an imminent danger, is it with joy that we are affected?
The sense on these occasions is far from that smooth and voluptuous satisfaction which the assured prospect of pleasure bestows.

The delight which arises from the modifications of pain confesses the stock from whence it sprung, in its solid, strong, and severe nature.
SECTION VI.
OF THE PASSIONS WHICH BELONG TO SELF-PRESERVATION.
Most of the ideas which are capable of making a powerful impression on the mind, whether simply of pain or pleasure, or of the modifications of those, may be reduced very nearly to these two heads, _self-preservation_, and _society_; to the ends of one or the other of which all our passions are calculated to answer.

The passions which concern self-preservation, turn mostly on _pain_ or _danger_.