Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.2 We do everything we do in life to be happy and content. But because we don’t seem to be very content as men, we need to reflect a little more deeply about what contentment is