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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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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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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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