Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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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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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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