The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe 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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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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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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