Quote by Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

• Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

• The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

• God is a thing that thinks.