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Baruch Spinoza Quote - A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.

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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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Hard Time Inspirational Understand Weep
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Freedom One Liner Reason
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive
God is not He who is, but That which is.
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God Lord Religion
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
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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Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Reward Virtue
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See
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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Absence Benevolence Confidence Justice Mind Peace Virtue War
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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Action Cease Effort Human Understand
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Crime Government Opinion Thought
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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Belong Man Nature Understand
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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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Absolute Art Freedom Liberty Necessary Progress Science

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