A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
BARUCH SPINOZAIf you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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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 who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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