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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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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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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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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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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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