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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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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's but under nature everything belongs to all.
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Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
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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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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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