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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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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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We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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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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