Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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 most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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