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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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Baruch de Espinosa
Barukh Shpinozah
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Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Benedictus de Spinoza
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
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In the mind there is no absolute or free will but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
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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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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.
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If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.
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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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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don
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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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No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.
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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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