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TO YIELD AND GIVE WAY TO OUR PASSIONS IS THE LOWEST SLAVERY: even as to rule over them is the only liberty.
THE GREATEST OF ALL GOOD IS TO BE FREE FROM SIN: the next is to be justified; but he must be reckoned the most unfortunate of men, who, while living unrighteously, remains for a long time unpunished.
ANIMALS IN HARNESS CANNOT BUT BE CARRIED OVER A PRECIPICE BY THE INEXPERIENCE AND BADNESS OF THEIR DRIVER: even as by his skilfulness and excellence they will be saved.
THE END CONTEMPLATED BY A PHILOSOPHER IS LIKENESS TO GOD: so far as that is possible.—From the writings of Antonius Melissa.