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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.
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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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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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