Arthur

“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.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
― Spinoza