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Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

Quoted in The Story of Philosophy - 1933 by Will Durant


Anything whatever can be, accidentally, a cause of hope or fear.

Ethics - 1677 - Part III : On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions - Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated - Proposition 50


In so far as a thing is in harmony with our nature, it is necessarily good.

Ethics - 1677 - Part IV : Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions - Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated - Proposition 31


In so far as men are assailed by emotions which are passions, they can be contrary one to another.

Ethics - 1677 - Part IV : Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions - Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated - Proposition 34


In so far only as men live in obedience to reason, do they always necessarily agree in nature.

Ethics - 1677 - Part IV : Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions - Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated - Proposition 35


Men can differ in nature, in so far as they are assailed by those emotions, which are passions, or passive states; and to this extent one and the same man is variable and inconstant.

Ethics - 1677 - Part IV : Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions - Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated - Proposition 33


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