He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
Baruch SpinozaThe virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
Baruch SpinozaNature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.
Baruch SpinozaHe who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Baruch Spinoza