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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.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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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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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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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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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
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