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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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Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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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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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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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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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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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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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.
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All is One (Nature, God)
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don
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[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.
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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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