#iv

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#cannot #fear #hope #nor #without

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#indignant #understand #wax #weep

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#hate #human #human actions #i #laugh

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#come #easily #himself #imagine #man

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#aid #beyond #care #every #every man

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#cannot #civil #common #conceived #consent

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#direct #drawback #fame #fancy #great

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#conditioned #contingent #divine #divine nature #exist

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#consent #entire #free #guidance #lives

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#god #nothing #whatsoever #without