Quotes from authors passed in 1677
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow
Denzil Douglas 
Emil Ludwig 
Jaron Lanier 
Sara Gilbert 
Sarah Polley 
John Brough 
Maria Montessori 
Horace Smith