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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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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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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]
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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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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
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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 can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's but under nature everything belongs to all.
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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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Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
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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 proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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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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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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