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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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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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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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