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date: 07 October 2024

Baruch Spinoza 1632–77
Dutch philosopher 

  1. All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
    Ethics (1677)
  2. I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
    Tractatus Politicus (1677) ch. 1, sect. 4