Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZAThere can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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