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.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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