• In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

    Baruch Spinoza: In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
    "Political Treatise" by Baruch Spinoza, translated by A. H. Gosset, (Ch. 2), 1883.