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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.
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 proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
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If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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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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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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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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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
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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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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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