When talking about the world, it should never be ridiculed, lamented, or cursed, but understood first.
By transforming the intellectual habits of the Jewish people from the long moral grievances of the weak to a sound love of justice, reason, and strong political will, Spinoza sought to transform the Jewish people, deprived of their independence and liberty, from a humiliating theology— They were rescued from political destiny and settled in the modern secular history of mankind as quiet and peaceful "citizens" rather than as vain, warlike and repeatedly defeated "chosen people of God."
Love is love in troubled times. There are too many enemies of love, which can be reputation and secularism, hard currency, or politics. Lovers always find moments of escape.
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