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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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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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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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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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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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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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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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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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