All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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