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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 most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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...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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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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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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