Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZAA 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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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