Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Affairs

Quotes about: Affairs

• Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Desire, Would Be

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Variant translation of Prop. 2: Note, 1677.

• Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.

  Baruch Spinoza

  War, Tyrants, Evil

• Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Experience, Would Be

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, 1677.

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