Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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.
- Baruch Spinoza
Whatsoever is, is in God. - Baruch Spinoza
Whatsoever is, is in God.
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.
To understand something is to be delivered of it. - Baruch Spinoza
To understand something is to be delivered of it.
All is One (Nature, God) - Baruch Spinoza
All is One (Nature, God)
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.
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.
God is not He who is, but That which is. - Baruch Spinoza
God is not He who is, but That which is.
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