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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.

Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.

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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Clear Emotion Lover Understand
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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
God is not He who is, but That which is.
BARUCH SPINOZA

God Lord Religion
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Absolute Art Freedom Liberty Necessary Progress Science
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Crime Government Opinion Thought
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire Mankind Men Reason Rule
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Acceptance Astonish Cease Ideas True
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Action Cease Effort Human Understand
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Absence Benevolence Confidence Justice Mind Peace Virtue War
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering

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