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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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.
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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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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.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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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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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 govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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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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All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
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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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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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