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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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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.
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