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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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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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Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].
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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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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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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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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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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
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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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