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