The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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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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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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