“A passion must be accompanied with some false judgment [for it to be] unreasonable; and even then it…”
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“A passion must be accompanied with some false judgment [for it to be] unreasonable; and even then it is not the passion, properly speaking, which is unreasonable, but the judgment.”

David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

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