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“If what the philosophers say be true,--that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain,--so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.”
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- Source:
- Discourses. Chap. xviii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 740e0a5467bdc9c53733610b365960576b6494662c283b4c45cfae1cc93f67d8
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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