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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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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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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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 believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.
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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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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.
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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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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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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Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
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A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.
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