All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZASelf-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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