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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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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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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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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.
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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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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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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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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 human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].
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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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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Desire is the very essence of man
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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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