What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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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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