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

Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.

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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Faith Obedience Philosophy Save Truth
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Distress Give Up Life Live Philosophy Real Struggle
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
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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Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
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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Death Life Man Meditation Wisdom
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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Action Cease Effort Human Understand
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Hard Time Inspirational Understand Weep
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Desire Philosophy Positive
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.
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Action Cause Conscious Detrmination Freedom Ignorance Men Mistake Opinion
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Desire Mankind Men Reason Rule
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words

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