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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.

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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.
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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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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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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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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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Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
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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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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
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