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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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