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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 more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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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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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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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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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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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 you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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In the mind there is no absolute or free will but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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