He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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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 you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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