Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
BARUCH SPINOZADesire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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 have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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