We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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