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Freedom is self-determination.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
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If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
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He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.
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I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.
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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.
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