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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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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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Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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