Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Better for the right counsels of a dominion to be known to its enemies, than for the evil secrets of tyrants to be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a dominion have it absolutely under their authority, and, as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.

Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.