The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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