Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhat Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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