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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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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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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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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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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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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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...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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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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