I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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