#if

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#difficulty #govern #men #moderate #more

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#almost #could #difficult #excellent #found

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#beautiful #beauty #called #confused #confusion

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#different #past #present #study #want

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

#deaf #good #indifferent #melancholy #mourn

True virtue is life under the direction of reason. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#life #reason #true #under #virtue

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#hopeless #i

I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#am #because #diet #i #i am

I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I'd like to be that guy now. Maybe that's what I'm going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#did #games #going #got #guy

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#i #make #make a difference #money #want