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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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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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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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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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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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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Desire is the very essence of man
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He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
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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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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
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