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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

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Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography, Science & philosophy
Memoirs
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For the two reasons specified below, I have given myself the surname “Wasserzug”; the first reason is that when I was five or six years of age, I was playing with some young children, I believe, in a…

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Moses Wasserzug

Places:

Płock, Kingdom of Prussia (Płock, Poland)

Date:

ca. 1820

Subjects:

Adolescence, Family, Education, Charity, Economic life, (Auto)biography

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Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & diaries
Diary
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Remember me, O my God, for the good (Nehemiah 5:19). Amen I began to write the first Torah Scroll, with the help of God, today, 2 Heshvan, the twenty-second of October, in the year 5302 [1541]. It…

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Meir ben Ephraim of Padua

Places:

Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)

Date:

1541–1580

Subjects:

Writing, Scribal culture, Profession, Economic life, Health, (Auto)biography

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Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & diaries