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1 We may add, that these emotions show defective 2 knowledge and an absence of power in the mind; for the same 3 reason confidence, despair, joy, and disappointment are signs of 4 a want of mental power. For although confidence and joy are 5 pleasurable emotions, they nevertheless imply a preceding pain, 6 namely, hope and fear. Wherefore the more we endeavour to be 7 guided by reason, the less do we depend on hope; we endeavour to 8 free ourselves from fear, and, as far as we can, to dominate 9 fortune, directing our actions by the sure counsels of wisdom. 10 11