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 SPINOZAI have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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