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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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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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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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