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Baruch Spinoza Quote - When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.

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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
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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Death Life Man Meditation Wisdom
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
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 world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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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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Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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