None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.Baruch Spinoza
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Baruch Spinoza
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch Spinoza
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
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