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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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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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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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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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Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.
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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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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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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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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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