By evil I mean that which we certainly know to be a hindrance to us in the attainment of any good. Particular things I call contingent in so far as, while regarding their essence only, we find nothing therein, which necessarily asserts their existence or excludes it. By conflicting emotions I mean those which draw a man in different directions, though they are of the same kind, such as luxury and avarice , which are both species of love , and are contraries, not by nature, but by accident. By an end , for the sake of which we do something, I mean a desire . There is no individual thing in nature, than which there is not another more powerful and strong.
Whatsoever thing be given, there is something stronger whereby it can be destroyed.
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