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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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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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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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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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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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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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Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.
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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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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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A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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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 less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
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If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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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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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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