Share this page: Sedulo curavi, humanes actiones non ridere, non lugare, neque detestari, sed intelligere. I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. -- Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670), bk. 1, pt. 4 Deus, sive Natura. God, or in other words, Nature. -- Ethics (1677), pt. 1, ch. 6 Appetitus, qui proinde nihil aliud est quam ipsa hominis essentio. Appetite, which is therefore nothing but the very essence of man. -- Ethics (1677), pt. 3, ch. 6 Share this page:

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