The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Baruch Spinoza

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Baruch Spinoza

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
Baruch Spinoza

We feel and know that we are eternal.
Baruch Spinoza

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Baruch Spinoza

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Baruch Spinoza

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
Baruch Spinoza