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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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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
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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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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's but under nature everything belongs to all.
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