Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
BARUCH SPINOZAThere can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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