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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Approximate author period: c. 1654 AD · renaissance

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Author or tradition
Baruch Spinoza
Attribution: attributed
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Approximate author period: c. 1654 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1632–1677)
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