Notes
1. Spinoza, Ethics, cf. Persian trans. Falsafeh nazari, p. 106.
2. Dar justoju-e khushbakhti, pp. 58, 219.
3. Nahj al-fasahah, p. 201.
4. Al-Amidi, Ghurar al-hikam wa durar al-kalim, p. 95.
5. Ibid., p. 424.
6. Ibid., p. 26.
7. Spinoza, op. cit., cf. Falsafeh nazari, p. 106.
8. Ghurar al-hikam. p. 614.
9. Ibid., p. 195.
10. Paul Clement Jagot, Persian trans. Qudrat-e iradeh, pp. 70-71.
11. Nahj al-balaghah ed. Fayd al-Islam, p. 1157.
12. Ghurar al-hikam, p. 668.
13. Ibid., p. 677.
14. Tafakkur-e sahih, pp. 50-53.
15. Shaykh 'Abbas al-Qummi, Safinat al-Bihar, vol. 2, p. 161.
16. Ghurar al-hikam, p. 440.