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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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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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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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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