Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza
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- He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
- Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
- I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
- There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
- Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.