There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is self-determination.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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