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“In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.”
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- Source:
- Discourses. Chap. xi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- e3dde1a11f15f6e66fc89ebb6047da766531cee041df5c08d68c9deea2da4f61
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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