The other
adversary is the passion of wanting everyone to submit his judgment
and will to ours. That’s contrary to gentleness, for
we usually
see that those who want everything to be done in accord
with their
judgment, and that everything they want should be done
in the time
and manner they wish, are rude, violent, angry, and imperious people,
and that’s totally opposed to gentleness. On the
contrary, gentle
persons don’t hold to their own opinion, condescending to the will
o f others and never pushing to have their will
done... So then,
wanting everyone to submit his judgment and will to
ours is a vice
opposed to gentleness. (22 August 1659; SV XII, 259)
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