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Our inquiry, accordingly, is whether reason is sovereign over the emotions.
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We shall decide just what reason is and what emotion is, how many kinds of emotions there are, and whether reason rules over all these.
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Now reason is the mind that with sound logic prefers the life of wisdom.
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Wisdom, next, is the knowledge of divine and human matters and the causes of these.
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This, in turn, is education in the law, by which we learn divine matters reverently and human affairs to our advantage.
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