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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.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
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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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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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