Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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