All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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