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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.
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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
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If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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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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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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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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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.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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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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