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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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Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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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 more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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