Baruch Spinoza Quote

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.


Ethics, III, proposition 2: note


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...

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...

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...

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...