What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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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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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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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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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