All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our 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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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