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.Baruch Spinoza
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Desire is the essence of a man.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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Bad,
Deaf,
Good,
Indifferent,
Melancholy,
Mourn,
Music,
Neither,
Nor,
Same,
Thing,
Those,
Time
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