If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZAWhat Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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