50+ Baruch Spinoza (Dutch philosopher)

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Genuine Happiness Life Need Want
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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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
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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Action Effort Hate Human Strive Understand Weep
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad
Freedom is self-determination.
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Determination Freedom One Liner
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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Crime Government Opinion Thought
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See
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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Death Life Man Meditation Wisdom
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Arms Conquer Love Mind Noble
Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Desire Philosophy Positive
Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Appearance Incomplete Knowledge Nature Random
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
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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Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Freedom One Liner Reason
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
Reason is no match for passion.
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Match One Liner Passion Reason
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Faith Obedience Philosophy Save Truth
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Desire Mankind Men Reason Rule
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare

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