Affected Quote by Baruch Spinoza

“A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.”

Baruch Spinoza

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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

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A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

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