He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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