Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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