Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
BARUCH SPINOZAReason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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 who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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