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Another distinctive passion Descartes describes is generosity [generosité], which produces a kind of self-directed wonder, or esteem, grounded in our recognition "that nothing really belongs to us other than the free disposition of our volitions," along with sensing "in ourselves at the same time a firm and constant resolution to use them well" (AT XI 446, slightly altered from CSM I 384).
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