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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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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
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If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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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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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
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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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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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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 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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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
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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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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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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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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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