All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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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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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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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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