He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge. - Baruch Spinoza
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
- Baruch Spinoza
Whatsoever is, is in God. - Baruch Spinoza
Whatsoever is, is in God.
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter. - Baruch Spinoza
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
God is not He who is, but That which is. - Baruch Spinoza
God is not He who is, but That which is.
To understand something is to be delivered of it. - Baruch Spinoza
To understand something is to be delivered of it.
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts. - Baruch Spinoza
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides. - Baruch Spinoza
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
All is One (Nature, God) - Baruch Spinoza
All is One (Nature, God)
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. - Baruch Spinoza
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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