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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
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Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
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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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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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