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“Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.”

Baruch Spinoza · Nature

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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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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