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The Ethics

PREFACE
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Wherefore humility, or the pain which arises from a man's contemplation of his own infirmity, does not arise from the contemplation or reason, and is not a virtue but a passion.
Q.E.D.
[14] Land reads: "Quod ipsius agendi potentia juvatur"-- which I have translated above.

He suggests as alternative readings to 'quod', 'quo' (= whereby) and 'quodque' (= and that).
PROP.LIV.

Repentance is not a virtue, or does not arise from reason; but he who repents of an action is doubly wretched or infirm.
Proof .-- The first part of this proposition is proved like the foregoing one.

The second part is proved from the mere definition of the emotion in question (Def.

of the Emotions, xxvii.).


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