Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
Baruch SpinozaThe greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.
Baruch Spinoza