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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.
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Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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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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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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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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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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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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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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