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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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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
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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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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious title of religion to cloak the fear by which they must be held in check, so that they will fight for their servitude as if for salvation.
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Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.
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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 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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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.
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God is a thing that thinks.
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Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.
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