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“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”
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“The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.”
― The Ethics/Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect/Selected Letters
― The Ethics/Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect/Selected Letters
“everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking...”
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“self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.”
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“He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.”
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Susan’s 2025 Year in Books
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