I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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