Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch Spinoza
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
thetimes time music
Desire is the essence of a man.
man
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
self
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
action
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
fame men
How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
labor men
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
men
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
virtues
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