If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZAIf you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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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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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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