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“Needs must it be hard, since it is so seldom found. How would it be possible, if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labour be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
— Baruch Spinoza
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Ethics (1677), Part V, Prop. XLII, Scholium
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