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Baruch Spinoza Quote - If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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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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Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
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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Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
Reason is no match for passion.
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Match One Liner Passion Reason
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
Freedom is self-determination.
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Determination Freedom One Liner
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Bitching Character Human Nature Judgment
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Hard Time Inspirational Understand Weep
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See
Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Appearance Chance Knowledge Lack Nature
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason

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