Baruch Spinoza, Ethics Quotes
Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...
Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.
The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things
men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.
