He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.
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As for the terms good and bad, they indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking, or notion...
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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