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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.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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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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Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.
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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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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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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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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
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All is One (Nature, God)
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
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