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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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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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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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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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