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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
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