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Blind of one's own free will.—There is a kind of enthusiastic, excessive devotion to some person or party which betrays that in our inmost hearts we feel superior to the objects of our devotion, and, for that reason, feel indignant with ourselves. We, as it were, blind ourselves of our own free will, to punish our eyes for having seen too much.
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Remedium amoris.—In most cases love is now as ever relieved by that ancient, radical remedy: love in return.
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Where is our worst enemy!—We, who are and are conscious of being good managers of our own affairs, are generally conciliatory towards our adversary. But the belief that we have the right on our side, and the knowledge that we are incapable of pleading it.—rouses a fierce an implacable hatred against the opponent of our cause. May everybody judge thereby in what direction he has to look for his worst enemies.
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Limit of all humility.—Many a man may indeed have attained that humility which says, Credo quia absurdum est, and sacrifices its reason: but not one, for aught I
