A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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