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Tractatus de intellectus emendatione (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect)
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[1] After experience had taught me that all the things which regularly occur in ordinary life are empty and futile, and I saw that all the things which were the cause or object of my fear had nothing…

Contributor:

Baruch Spinoza

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

ca. 1662

Subjects:

Philosophy, Ethics, Life cycle, Conceptualism, Economic life, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography, Science & philosophy
Tsemaḥ David (The Sprout of David)
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Thus spoke David, son of Isaac, son of Eliezer, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, son of Menahem, son of Isaac, son of Obadiah, son of Isaac—known as “the wealthy one”—son of Elijah, known as “the holy…

Contributor:

David de Pomis

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

1587

Subjects:

Violence, Education, Philosophy, Antisemitism, Marriage, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography, Historical writing