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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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Baruch Spinoza
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
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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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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
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The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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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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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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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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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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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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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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