Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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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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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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