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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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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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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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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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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 body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
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True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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