Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZADo not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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