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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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