A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
BARUCH SPINOZADo not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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