Baruch Spinoza Benedictus de Spinoza
philosopher · Amsterdam, the Netherlands · The Hague · 1632–1677
Cast out of the Jewish community of Amsterdam, he ground lenses for a living and wrote philosophy. His chief work, the Ethics, appeared only after his death.
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But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.Ethics, the last sentence · in place of the original: the English translation by R. H. M. Elwes (1883)
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