The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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