When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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