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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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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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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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True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
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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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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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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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