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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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Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
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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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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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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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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].
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Freedom is self-determination.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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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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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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