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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.
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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
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If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.
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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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