In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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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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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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