When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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