Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe 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.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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