Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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 happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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