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 SPINOZANothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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 who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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