Baruch Spinoza Quotes
He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Baruch Spinoza
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T. J. Miller
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Barry Jenkins
As far as I'm concerned, you're a feminist by default if you're born in the Western world right now.
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I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.
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Barack Obama
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
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He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.
Baruch Spinoza
