When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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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Be 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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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