All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZANature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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