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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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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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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
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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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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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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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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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