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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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