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Quote by Baruch Spinoza
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indi

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. – Baruch Spinoza

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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. – Baruch Spinoza

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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. – Baruch Spinoza

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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. – Baruch Spinoza

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