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To the Very Learned and Experienced Mr. Johannes Bouwmeester
From B. d. S.
Most Learned Sir, special Friend,
I have not been able till now to reply to your last letter, which I received some time…
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Baruch Spinoza
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Voorburg, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Voorburg, Netherlands)
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1666
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As it is written in the Zohar, Shelakh lekha: Women are privileged to merit the joy of the righteous who do the work of the Lord. They establish merit for their portion among the righteous. Men and…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Simon Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1703
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In summary, man was created not for his state in this world, but for his state in the world-to-come. His state in this world, however, serves as the means toward [attaining] his state in the world-to…
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Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1738
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Third Part of the Ethics on the Origins and Nature of the Affects
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Baruch Spinoza
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (The Hague, Netherlands)
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1675
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Reason:Righteousness, beloved of my soul, may your heart be of good courage. Gird yourself with vigor, for, the further salvation seems to be…
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Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Early 18th Century–1740
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Great hazards of the world are these rational brutes, the avaricious rich, as they are…
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Abraham Israel Pereyra
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1666
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Truth descends to the stage in a pillar of fire.
Truth:I come to dispel shadows with eternal light.
Error:What difficulties do I see?
Will:What do I see?
Intellect:Is it not Truth whom I adore?
False…
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Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1665
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[1] After experience had taught me that all the things which regularly occur in ordinary life are empty and futile, and I saw that all the things which were the cause or object of my fear had nothing…
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Abraham Rademaker, Baruch Spinoza
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1662
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Whenever you go in to visit any sick person, whoever he may be, coerce him, even against his wishes, into making a will, and do not have any concern on account of his sons and his wife and…
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Solomon Adahan
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1735
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Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, one of the world’s foremost philosophers, was born in Amsterdam to parents of Portuguese New Christian origin and educated in the Talmud Torah of the Portuguese Sephardic…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1665