He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZABlessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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 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 world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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