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“If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.”

Book:Ethics

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Ethics

This book delves into the fundamental questions of ethics, examining various theories and perspectives on moral reasoning and behavior. more

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Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza, a 17th-century Dutch philosopher of Jewish descent, is renowned for his unique philosophical thoughts and critical analysis of religion. Spinoza's philosophy emphasizes the unity of reason, nature, and God, and has had a profound impact on Western philosophy. more

“He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.”

Life Reason Hands Hatred Strive Generosity Guidance Love Life Contempt Strife Reciprocal

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows. Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.”

Men Life Mind Kind Force Powerful Hatred Fellows Envy Proportion Variance

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.”

Ifs Men Want Life Matter Certain Dies Cutting Influence Dying Talent Cold Genius Horror No Matter What Vices Be Good Uncertainty Layers Frailty Unloved Short Cuts East Of Eden

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.”

Men Life Prove Moved Affair Ignorant Vanity His Love Love Affair

Book:The Pink & The Green: Followed by Mina De Vanghel

Source: The Pink & The Green: Followed by Mina De Vanghel

“The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?”

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.”

Trying Moments Levels Attitude Moral Minutes Integrity Approach Gentleman Scholar Moral Integrity

Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

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