I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZAI 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.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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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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