Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
BARUCH SPINOZANo matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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