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Quotation from Ethics by Baruch Spinoza

“But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare”

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics, Part V, Prop. XLII, Note (final sentence), trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883)

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The last words of the Ethics concede how hard the way to blessedness is.

Citation: "But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare" — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Part V, Prop. XLII, Note (final sentence), trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883). (id ethics-q13)

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