The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZAWe feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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 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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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