What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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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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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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