Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
BARUCH SPINOZAHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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