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> [After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/after-experience-had-taught-me-that-all-the-usual-surroundings-of/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/the-greater-emotion-with-which-we-conceive-a-loved-object-to-be/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/i-saw-that-all-things-i-feared-and-which-feared-me-had-nothing-good/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/a-man-is-as-much-affected-pleasurably-or-painfully-by-the-image-of-a/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/if-anyone-conceives-that-an-object-of-his-love-joins-itself-to/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/the-body-is-affected-by-the-image-of-the-thing-in-the-same-way-as-if/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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## Other authors on Affected

## More by Baruch Spinoza

> [It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/it-is-sure-that-those-are-most-desirous-of-honour-or-glory-who-cry/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/to-know-the-order-of-nature-and-regard-the-universe-as-orderly-is-the/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/if-anyone-conceives-that-he-is-loved-by-another-and-believes-that-he/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/the-world-would-be-happier-if-men-had-the-same-capacity-to-be-silent/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [“So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God—in other words, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/so-they-will-pursue-their-questions-from-cause-to-cause-till-at-last/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/as-men-s-habits-of-mind-differ-so-that-some-more-readily-embrace-one/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/if-a-man-had-begun-to-hate-an-object-of-his-love-so-that-love-is/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/i-make-this-chief-distinction-between-religion-and-superstition-that/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/one-and-the-same-thing-can-at-the-same-time-be-good-bad-and/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/a-good-thing-which-prevents-us-from-enjoying-a-greater-good-is-in/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/but-if-men-would-give-heed-to-the-nature-of-substance-they-would/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/the-more-intelligible-a-thing-is-the-more-easily-it-is-retained-in/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/in-the-state-of-nature-wrong-doing-is-impossible-or-if-anyone-does/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/for-peace-is-not-mere-absence-of-war-but-is-a-virtue-that-springs/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/peace-is-not-an-absence-of-war-it-is-a-virtue-a-state-of-mind-a/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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