Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZAEmotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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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.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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