"ne...@posting.org" wrote:
> only be had in another. We
> render different duties to different merits; the duty of love to the
> pleasant; the duty of fear to the strong; duty of belief to the learned.
>
> We must render these duties; it is unjust to refuse them, and unjust to ask
> others. And so it is false and tyrannical to say, "He is not strong,
> therefore I will not esteem him; he is not able, therefore I will not fear
> him."
>
> 333. Have you never seen people who, in order to complain of the little fuss
> you make about them, parade before you the example of great men who esteem
> them? In answer I reply to them, "Show me the merit whereby you have charmed
> these persons, and I also will esteem you."
>
> 334. The reason of effects.--Lust and force are the source of all our
> actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
>
> 335. The reason of effects.--It is, then, true to say that all the world is
> under a delusion; for, although the opinions of the people are sound, they
> are not so as conceived by them, since they think the truth to be where it
> is not. Truth is indeed in their opinions, but not at the point where they
> imagine it
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