After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

— Baruch Spinoza

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

— Baruch Spinoza

All laws which can be violated without doing anyone any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

— Baruch Spinoza

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

— Baruch Spinoza

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— Baruch Spinoza

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.

— Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

— Baruch Spinoza

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

— Baruch Spinoza

Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.

— Baruch Spinoza

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

— Baruch Spinoza