Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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 has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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