Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZASelf-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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 mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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