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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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Be not astonished at new ideas for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming 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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