None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
From Baruch Spinoza
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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