“No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.”
― Theological-Political Treatise
― Theological-Political Treatise
“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”
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“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
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“We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theater, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
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