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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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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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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
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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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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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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.
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If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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