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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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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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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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