All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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