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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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 greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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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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True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.
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I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.
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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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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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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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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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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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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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