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 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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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