Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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