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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
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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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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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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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