Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
10 quotations
Desire is the essence of a man.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
We feel and know that we are eternal.
Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
Will and intellect are one and the same.