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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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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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[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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Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.
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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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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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