Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Baruch Spinoza
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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope to liberate ourselves from fear to rule fortune and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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