What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZAThere can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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