Pleasure in itself is good, but hope and fear are bad, and so are humility and repentance: he who repents of an action is doubly wretched or infirm. Spinoza regards time as unreal, therefore all emotions which have to do essentially with an event as future or past are contrary to reason. In so far as the mind conceives a thing as under the dictate of reason, it is affected equally, whether the idea be of a thing present, past, or future.p. 573.

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