Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
BARUCH SPINOZAA free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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 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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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 alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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