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Baruch Spinoza Quote - All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Cause Conscious Detrmination Freedom Ignorance Men Mistake Opinion
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Endeavor Understand Virtue
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Different Inspirational Past Present Study
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Disturb Establishment Philosophy Religion Teaching
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
Reason is no match for passion.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Match One Liner Passion Reason
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Crime Government Opinion Thought
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Fear Hope Life
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Cease Effort Human Understand

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