The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what 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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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