No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZAThere can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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