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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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Desire is the very essence of man
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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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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
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Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
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Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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