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.
BARUCH SPINOZABlessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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