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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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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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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
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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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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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