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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He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.

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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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