Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZAEmotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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 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 world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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