Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
BARUCH SPINOZADesire 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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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