Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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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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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.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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