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... desire it ; to be freed from passions , to know how his passions obscure his knowledge and his achievement of happiness . I would have him hate in himself the desires which bias his judgment , that they might neither blind him in ...
... desire it ; to be freed from passions , to know how his passions obscure his knowledge and his achievement of happiness . I would have him hate in himself the desires which bias his judgment , that they might neither blind him in ...
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... desires . These too must be admitted to be merely so much matter in motion . As that which is really within us , in sensation , is only motion caused by the action of external objects , so that which is really within us in appetite or ...
... desires . These too must be admitted to be merely so much matter in motion . As that which is really within us , in sensation , is only motion caused by the action of external objects , so that which is really within us in appetite or ...
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... desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death . And the cause of this that no man can assure the power and means to live well , which he hath at present , without the acquisition of more . It may seem strange to some , who have ...
... desire of power after power that ceaseth only in death . And the cause of this that no man can assure the power and means to live well , which he hath at present , without the acquisition of more . It may seem strange to some , who have ...
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