Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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 most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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