
“ Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts. ”
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677). copy citation
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1677
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Translated by R. H. M. Elwes