Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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 offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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