Baruch Spinoza Quote

In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.


Ethics, IV, proposition 70: note


In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.

In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.

In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.

In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.