Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
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