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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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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.
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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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In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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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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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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