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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 human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.
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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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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
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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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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
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If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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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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The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.
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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 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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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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