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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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The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
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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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Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
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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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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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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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Desire is the very essence of man
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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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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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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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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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...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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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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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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