"What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them."

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Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.

— Baruch Spinoza