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Desire is the very essence of man
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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.
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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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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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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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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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[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.
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No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
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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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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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