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Once having passions you called them evil. Now however you have nothing but your virtues: they grew out of your passions.
You laid your highest goal upon these passions: then they became your virtues and delights.
And though you were from the stock of the choleric, or of the voluptuous, or of the religiously frantic, or of the vindictive:
At last all your passions grew virtues and all your devils angels.
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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance;
one cannot fly into flying.
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My brother, if you have good luck, you have one virtue and no more: thus you walk more easily over the bridge.
It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot: and many having gone to the desert kill...
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Behold how each of your virtues is covetous for the highest: it longs for your whole spirit to be its herald, it longs for your whole power in wrath, love and hatred.
Jealous is each virtue of the other, and a terrible thing...
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These states of feeling are disturbances of mental health which upset the natural balance of the soul. They are harmful because they conflict with right reason. The ideal Stoic would instead measure things at their real value, and see that the passions are not natural. To be free of the passions ...
Behold how each of your virtues is covetous for the highest: it longs for your whole spirit to be its herald, it longs for your whole power in wrath, love and hatred.
Jealous is each virtue of the other, and a terrible thing...
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