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other to ward off the danger in the direction in which he suspects it to lie. Nature again has or dained that the eye of man shall close of itself, so that remaining during his sleep without protection it shall suffer no hurt.

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Every objecft naturally seeks to maintain itself in itself.

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The part always tends to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection; the soul desires to remain with its body, because without the organic instruments of that body it can neither act nor feel.

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The lover is moved by the object he loves as the senses are by sensible things; and they unite and become one and the same. The work is the first thing which is born of this union; if the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base. When what is united is in harmony with that which receives it, delight, pleasure and satisfaction ensue. When the lover is united to the beloved he rests there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there.

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A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner.

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