How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
More Quotes from Baruch Spinoza:
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.Baruch Spinoza
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
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