The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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