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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness. ”
The whole is more than the sum of its parts. ”
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. ”
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. ”
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ”
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ”
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world. ”
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted. ”
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul. ”
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. ”