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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
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Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Desire is the very essence of man
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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