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" It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and invigorate himself with moderate and pleasant eating and drinking, with sweet scents and the beauty of green plants... "
Spinoza and the Rise of Liberalism - Page 200
by Lewis Samuel Feuer - 1987 - 323 pages
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Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order: And Divided Into Five Parts, which ...

Benedictus de Spinoza - Ethics - 1883 - 348 pages
...we do not disgust ourselves with them, which is not delighting in them), is the part of a wise man. It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and...enjoy without hurting another. For the human body is coinposed of a great number of parts of diverse nature, which constantly need new and varied nourishment,...
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Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order and Divided Into Five Parts: Which ...

Benedictus de Spinoza - Ethics - 1883 - 432 pages
...not disgust ourselves with them, which is not delighting in them), is the part of a wise // man. fit is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and invigorate...kind which one man can enjoy without hurting another, j For the human body is composed of a great number of parts of diverse nature, which constantly need...
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A History of Modern Philosophy: A Sketch of the History of ..., Volume 1

Harald Høffding - Philosophy, Modern - 1900 - 558 pages
...which we pass thereby, that is to say, the more do we necessarily partake of the divine nature. ... It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and...green plants, with ornament, with music, with sports, and with the theatre."1 In spite of his vein of mysticism, Spinoza was no ascetic. In his life, as...
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Morals in Review

Arthur Kenyon Rogers - Ethics - 1927 - 494 pages
...possible." For the same reason Spinoza has no good word for asceticism. It is the part of a wise man to refresh and invigorate himself with moderate and...plants, with ornament, with music, with sports, with the theater; for the human body is composed of many parts of diverse nature which continually stand in...
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George Eliot: Her Mind and Her Art

Joan Bennett - 1962 - 228 pages
...hinders us from reaching that model.1 Equally congenial to them both was Spinoza's insistence that: It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and...theatre and with all things of this kind which one man may enjoy without hurting another.1 Besides introducing Spinoza to English readers Lewes was also the...
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Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity

Steven B. Smith - Philosophy - 1997 - 294 pages
...of Ambition in the United States but So Few of Lofty Ambitions." 1 10. Ethics, IV, P 45 S, p. 572: "It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants,...
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The Gift of Touch: Embodying the Good

Stephen David Ross - Philosophy - 1998 - 414 pages
...other is much closer to the thought of bodies with which this chapter struggles in reading Spinoza. It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants,...
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Human Freedom After Darwin: A Critical Rationalist View

John W. N. Watkins - Philosophy - 1999 - 372 pages
...from innocent pleasures, provided of course that you do not over-indulge or become dependent on them: 'It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants,...
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A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life

André Comte-Sponville - Philosophy - 2002 - 372 pages
...pleasures. It is enlightened, mastered, cultivated taste. Spinoza, in the same scholium, continues: "It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants,...
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Spinoza: The reception and influence of Spinoza's philosophy

Genevieve Lloyd - 2001 - 392 pages
...sweet scents and the beauty of gteen plants, with otnament, with music, with spotts, with the theatet, and with all things of this kind which one man can enjoy without hutting anothet" (E4P45Cot. 2 SchoL). Evolution and Ptogtess Having established that Spinoza and Mandeville...
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