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Baruch Spinoza Quote - What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Clear Emotion Lover Understand
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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Crime Government Opinion Thought
The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
Reason is no match for passion.
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Match One Liner Passion Reason
Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Defeat Emotion Overcome Reason Strong
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare
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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
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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Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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