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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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 world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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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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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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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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Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.
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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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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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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
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Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
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Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
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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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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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