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Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.
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 human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.
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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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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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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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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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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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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
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