aquele que quer responder s injrias com o dio vive na tristeza ou na mgoa, aquele que quer vencer o dio com o amor combate alegremente e sem temor. Triunfa tanto sobre um grande nmero de inimigos quanto sobre um nico, prescindindo de todo socorro da fortuna. Aqueles a quem ele consegue vencer ficam alegres por terem sido derrotados; e, derrotados, eles no so menos fortes; ao contrrio, so mais fortes.
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Baruch Spinoza was a 17th-century Portuguese dutch philosopher. Baruch (de) Spinoza, also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, who was born and lived in the Dutch Republic. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture, establishing himself as one of the most important and radical philosophers of the early modern period. Read more on Wikipedia →
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