Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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