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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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 regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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In the mind there is no absolute or free will but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
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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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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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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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Desire is the very essence of man
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