Mal. I shall only cease doing that when I die.
Far. But as long as you live you will be unable to do it. Your nature would tolerate anything rather than that.
Mal. So it is.
Far. Consequently, loving yourself above everything, you desire your own happiness more than anything. But because this is unattainable, you must necessarily be unhappy.
Mal. Even when engaged in pleasure; since no gratification can make me happy, or satisfy me.
Far. Truly none.
Mal. And because pleasure cannot satisfy my soul's innate desire for happiness, it is not true pleasure, and during its continuance I shall still be unhappy.
Far. As you say: because in men and other living beings, the deprivation of happiness, even though pain and misfortune be wanting, implies express unhappiness. This, too, during the continuance of so-called pleasures.
Mal. So that from birth to death our unhappiness never ceases for an instant.