Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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