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Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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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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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
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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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To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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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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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 we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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