巴鲁克·斯宾诺莎是一位葡萄牙裔荷兰哲学家。他是启蒙运动和现代圣经批评的早期思想家之一,包括现代自我观和宇宙观,后来被认为是启蒙运动和现代圣经批评的代表人物之一。
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
幸福是一种美德,而不是回报。
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
一切优秀的东西都是难得的。
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
罪不能在自然状态下孕育,而只能在公民状态下孕育,在公民状态下,由共同同意决定什么是好的什么是坏的。
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.
只要一个人认为他不能做这个或那个,只要他决心不去做;因此,只要他不可能做到这一点。
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
幸福不是美德的回报,而是美德本身。
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
任何事物的本质都不会产生某种影响。
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
不要对新思想感到惊讶;因为你们都知道,一件事并不是因为不被许多人接受,就不再是真的。
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
自满是伴随着把自己当作原因的想法而来的快乐。