Unos mueren porque sienten y otros viven porque no sienten. Y assí, unos son necios porque no mueren de sentimiento, y otros lo son porque mueren de él.
Maxim 208 (p. 118)
The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
“The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.”
Source: The Principles of Ethics (1897), Part I: The Data of Ethics, Ch. 7, The Psychological View
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