A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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