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Baruch Spinoza

"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."

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"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."

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"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."
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"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."
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"So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it."
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