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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.
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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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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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 do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
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