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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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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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Belong Man Nature Understand
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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Compell Follow Life Practical Science Truth
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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Crime Government Opinion Thought
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Bitching Character Human Nature Judgment
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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Action Cause Conscious Detrmination Freedom Ignorance Men Mistake Opinion
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Action Cease Effort Human Understand
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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Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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