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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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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
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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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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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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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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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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.
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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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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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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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