A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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