No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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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