Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZAI have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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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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