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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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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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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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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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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
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Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
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Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]
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God is a thing that thinks.
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Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
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