Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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