The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
BARUCH SPINOZAMen 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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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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