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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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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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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].
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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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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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