Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZAHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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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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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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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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