アダム・スミス『道徳感情論』（７）死の恐怖（dread of death）
That our sympathy can afford them no consolation seems to be an addition to their calamity; and to think that all we can do is unavailing, and that, what alleviates all other distress, the regret, the love, and the lamentations of their friends, can yield no comfort to them, serves only to exasperate our sense of their misery. – Adam Smith, The Theory of moral sentiments ： 1. Part 1 Of the Propriety of Action Consisting of Three Sections ： 1.1. Section I Of the Sense of Propriety ： 1.1.1. Chap. I Of Sympathy 《私達が共感しても死者にとって何の慰（なぐさ）めにもならないことは、死者の災難に輪を掛けているように思われるし、私達に出来ることはすべて役に立たず、他のすべての苦痛を和らげるもの、死者の友人たちの悔恨、慈悲、悲嘆も、死者には何の慰めにもならないと考えたとて、死者の不幸に対する私達の気持ちは悪化するだけである》― アダム・スミス『道徳感情論』：第 1 部 ３つの部分から構成される行為の妥当性について：第 1 編 行為の適宜性について：第 1 章 同感について The happiness of the dead, however, most assuredly, is affected by none of these circumstances; nor is it the thought of these things which can ever disturb the profound security of their repose. The idea of that dreary and endless melancholy, which t...