"Whatever moralists may hold, the human understanding is greatly indebted
to the passions, which, it is universally allowed,
are also much indebted to the understanding.
It is by the activities of our passions that
our reason is improved; for we desire knowledge
only because we desire enjoyment;
and it is impossible to conceive any reason
why a person who has neither fears nor desires
should give himself the trouble of reasoning."
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