Quotes from Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

For though men be ignorant, yet they are men

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.