Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch Spinoza
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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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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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice
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Desire is the very essence of man
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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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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it
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We feel and know that we are eternal
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward
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