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1677Amsterdam, Netherlands
It is in the nature of Reason to regard things under a certain form of eternity. Insofar as the mind knows itself and the body under a species of eternity, it necessarily has knowledge of God, and knows that it is in God and is conceived through God.
The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Aristotle·350 BCIt is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.
Chanakya·-300 ADMoral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success, for learning; and proper spending, for wealth.
Do after the good and leave the evil, and it shall bring you to good fame and renown.
