"Good means not not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."

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“[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.”

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“We know nothing accurately in reality, but [only] as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon [the body] and impinge upon it.”

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