John

“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“I tend to agree with the theory that if you want to keep a memory pristine, you must not call upon it too often, for each time it is revisited, you alter it irrevocably, remembering not the original impression left by experience but the last time you recalled it. With tiny differences creeping in at each cycle, the exercise of our memory does not bring us closer to the past but draws us further away.”
― Sally Mann, Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

“Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
― Hannah Arendt

“Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics