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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform 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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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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Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
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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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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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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's but under nature everything belongs to all.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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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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