It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be … - René Descartes

Mientras que el amor de un buen padre siente por sus hijos es tan puro que no desea obtener nada de ellos y no quiere poseerlos de otro modo que como lo hace, ni unirse a ellas más estrechamente de lo que lo está ya; si no que, considerándolos como otros él mismo, procura el bien de ellos como el suyo propio, o incluso con más celo, porque, pareciéndole que el y ellos constituyen un todo del cual no es él la mejor partes, prefiere a menudo los intereses de ellos antes que los suyos y no teme perderse por salvarlos.

I thence concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature consists only in thinking, and which, that it may exist, has need of no place, nor is dependent on any material thing; so that “ I,” that is to say, the mind by which I am what I am, is wholly distinct from the body, and is even more easily known than the latter, and is such, that although the latter were not, it would still continue to be all that it is.

The passions, then, can be defined as ‘perceptions, or sensations, or emotions of the soul that we refer (rapportons) particularly to the soul itself, and that are caused, sustained, and fortified by some movement of the spirits’ (§27).