In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
Baruch SpinozaSimply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.
Baruch SpinozaAll happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch SpinozaSince love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good
Baruch Spinoza