Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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