Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen 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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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