In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhat everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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