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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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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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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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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
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