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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.
Baruch Spinoza
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He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.
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Sadness diminishes a man's powers.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
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Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
Baruch Spinoza
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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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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfullyHe who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully.
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For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.
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We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.
Baruch Spinoza
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The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
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A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.
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The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.
Baruch Spinoza
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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The holy word of God is on everyone's lips...but...we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do.
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There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.
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Everyone has as much right as he has might.
Baruch Spinoza