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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

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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

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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

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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

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

— Baruch Spinoza

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

— Baruch Spinoza

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I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863. ↗

— Carl Spitteler

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