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.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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 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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Freedom is self-determination.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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