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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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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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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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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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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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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The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
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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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Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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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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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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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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