I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZAPhilosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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