To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
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God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
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