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.
BARUCH SPINOZAI call him free who is led solely by reason.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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