Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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