If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
BARUCH SPINOZANature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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