I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZAI call him free who is led solely by reason.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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 alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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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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