Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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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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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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