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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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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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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.
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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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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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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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I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.
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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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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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