From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.
Baruch SpinozaWhatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch SpinozaThings could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
Baruch Spinoza