There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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