Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
BARUCH SPINOZANothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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