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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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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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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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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
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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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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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