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.
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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Freedom is self-determination.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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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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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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