Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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