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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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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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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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