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。
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
最大的骄傲，或最大的沮丧，是对自己最大的无知。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
幸福是一种美德，而不是回报。