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“Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”

Baruch Spinoza · Happiness

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Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

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Baruch Spinoza

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.

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