Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
BARUCH SPINOZAThere can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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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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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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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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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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