Understanding frees

from Ethics, Part III: On the Emotions · tr. R. H. M. Elwes (1883)

Part III, Prop. LIX

Among all the emotions that are attributable to the mind as active, there are none which cannot be referred to pleasure or desire.

Part V, Prop. III

An emotion which is a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it.

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