Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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