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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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 safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.
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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.
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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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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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He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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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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The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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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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