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Quotation from Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
“PROP. LIV. Repentance is not a virtue, or does not arise from reason; but he who repents of an action is doubly wretched or infirm”
Ethics, Part IV, Prop. LIV, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883)
Spinoza denies the moral value of a sad affect long praised by religious teaching.
Citation: "PROP. LIV. Repentance is not a virtue, or does not arise from reason; but he who repents of an action is doubly wretched or infirm" — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV, Prop. LIV, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883). (id ethics-q10)
Portrait: Spinoza Ethica, Unknown, Public domain.
