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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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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