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• He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

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  Law, Liberty, Vices

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• Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

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  Life, Hands, Hatred

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.129, Commodius Vicus

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• Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

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  Nature, Philosophical, Environment

  "Theological-Political Treatise " by Baruch Spinoza, (p. 92), 1670.

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• We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.

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  Care, Infinite, Falsity

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “Letters to Friend and Foe”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

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  Integrity, Ethics, Moral Ethics

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• He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

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  Revenge, Mean, Fighting

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• Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

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  Philosophy, Views, Religion

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• [Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

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  Running, Ignorance, Way

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• Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.

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  Believe, Independent, Writing

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• Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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  Happiness, Happy, Rewards

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• Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

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  Life, Mind, Force

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• We feel and know that we are eternal.

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  Philosophical, Awareness, Immortality

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.76, Open Road Media

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• Sadness diminishes a man's powers

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  Sadness, Men, Diminish

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• Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

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  Indulge Yourself, Healthy, Pleasure

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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, Happy, Philosophical

  "On the Improvement of the Understanding". Book by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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  Philosophical, Firsts, Virtue

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• Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

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  Superstitions

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Preface, 1670.

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• 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.

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  Truth, Science, Ideas

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• Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

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  Humble, Humility, Ambitious

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• True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Virtue

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• In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.

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  Mind, Wish, Lasts

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.82, Commodius Vicus

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• Desire is the essence of a man.

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  Men, Essence, Desire

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• the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

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  Men, Liberty, May

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• Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.

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  Believe, Moving, Men

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• He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

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  Ideas, True And False, Adequate

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