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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.
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 human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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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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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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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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Desire is the very essence of man
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The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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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.
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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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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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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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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
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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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Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
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