The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
BARUCH SPINOZADesire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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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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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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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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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 call him free who is led solely by reason.
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