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“If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?”
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- Source:
- Discourses. Chap. xxv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- f1be42690e66f6c7f9ba321d4cc9fbbd26eb5531686bb40cfbc3a411e9ee9732
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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