"The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions,……" — Baruch Spinoza

"The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine."

— Baruch Spinoza

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