Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
BARUCH SPINOZANature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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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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