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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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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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