ON HOPE AND FEAR, &c.
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only negatively from the effects of their nature. For example, some one hopes for something which he thinks is good, although it is not good, yet, owing to his vacillation or pusillanimity, he happens to lack the courage necessary for its realisation, and so it comes about that he is negatively or by accident saved from the evil which he thought was good. These *Passions,* therefore, can also have no place whatever in the man who is guided by true Reason.
Lastly, as regards Courage, Boldness, and Emulation, about these there is nothing else to be said than that which we have already said about Love and Hatred.
