No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZADesire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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 most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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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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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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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