The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
Baruch SpinozaThe more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch SpinozaThings which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
Baruch SpinozaIf men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch SpinozaThe terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.
Baruch Spinoza