Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
Baruch SpinozaIf men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch SpinozaThe greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch SpinozaSince love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good
Baruch Spinoza