Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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Reason is no match for passion.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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