I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them. (Baruch Spinoza)

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Baruch Spinoza

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