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Baruch Spinoza Quote - The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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Compell Follow Life Practical Science Truth
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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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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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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