A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
BARUCH SPINOZANo matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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 most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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