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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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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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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
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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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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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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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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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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
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I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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