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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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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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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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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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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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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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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.
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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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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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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.
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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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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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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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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In the mind there is no absolute or free will but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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