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Quotation from Ethics by Baruch Spinoza

“Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage”

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics, Part IV, Preface, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883)

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The opening of 'Of Human Bondage' defines servitude as subjection to one's own passions.

Citation: "Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage" — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Part IV, Preface, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883). (id ethics-q6)

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