Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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