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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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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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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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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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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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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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Desire is the very essence of man
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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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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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
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Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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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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