We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
BARUCH SPINOZAThere can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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 govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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