Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
BARUCH SPINOZABe 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.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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