The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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