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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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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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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 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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
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[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.
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The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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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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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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