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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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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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A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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In the mind there is no absolute or free will but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
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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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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
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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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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.
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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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