Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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