Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
BARUCH SPINOZANature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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