The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

— Baruch Spinoza

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

— Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope mingled with fear and no fear mingled with hope.

— Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope mingled with fear, and no fear mingled with hope.

— Baruch Spinoza

The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive, not to guide men by reason, but to restrain them by fear, so that they flee the evil rather than love virtues. Such people aim only to make others as wretched as they themselves are, so it is no wonder that they are generally burdensome and hateful to men.

— Baruch Spinoza

The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

— Baruch Spinoza

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

— Baruch Spinoza

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

— Baruch Spinoza

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

— Baruch Spinoza

Those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious

— Baruch Spinoza