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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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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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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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