All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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