Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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 made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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