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.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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 most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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