All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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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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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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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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