Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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

"I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids."