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Baruch Spinoza

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.

Baruch Spinoza

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Spinoza is saying that the value of something like music depends on the person experiencing it, as it can bring comfort to someone feeling sad, cause pain to someone grieving, or have no effect on someone who cannot hear. This shows that things are not inherently good or bad on their own but are judged based on individual perspectives and situations.

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