Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZAIf you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of 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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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