Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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