Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZAMinds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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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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