Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
BARUCH SPINOZAIf you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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