Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZAFreedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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 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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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