When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
BARUCH SPINOZAPhilosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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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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