#no

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

#difficulty #govern #men #moderate #more

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

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#first #flattery #more #none #proud

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#effect #exists #follow #nature #nothing

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

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#consequently #determined #him #imagines #impossible

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#hope #no fear

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

— Baruch Spinoza

#god #nothing #whatsoever #without

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#because #become #between #doctor #english

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing. ↗