“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.