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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 make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.
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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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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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