Map · Book 2: Of the Passions · Part 3: Of the will and direct passions · T 2.3.8 The same subject continu'd
T 2.3.8.6
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Whatever supports and fills the passions is agreeable to us; as on the contrary, what weakens and infeebles them is uneasy. As opposition has the first effect, and facility the second, no wonder the mind, in certain dispositions, desires the former, and is averse to the latter.