Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
BARUCH SPINOZABlessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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