Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
BARUCH SPINOZASadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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 most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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