Note 1148 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
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Two different principles our nature move; One spurs, one reins; this reason, that self-love.
Cicero's Offices, i. 28: "The powers of the mind are twofold; one consists in appetite, by the Greeks called ὁρμη (impulse), which hurries man hither and thither; the other in reason, which teaches and explains what we are to do, and what we are to avoid."