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• The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

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  Soul, Mind, Body

  Baruch Spinoza (2002). “Spinoza: The Complete Works”, p.374, Hackett Publishing

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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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• 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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• I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

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  Believe, Circles, Atheism

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• Desire is the essence of a man.

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  Men, Essence, Desire

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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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  Men, Wish, Desire

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• He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

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  Return, God Love, Should

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.151, Hackett Publishing

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• Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

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  Excellent, Difficult

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• Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

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  School, Men, Historical

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• To understand something is to be delivered of it.

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• A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

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  Evil, Good Things, Enjoy

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• Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

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  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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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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  Life, Men, Thinking

  1677 Ethics, bk.4, prop.67.

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• Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

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  Philosophical, Ambition, Power

  "The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings".

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• Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

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  Pride, Self, Reason

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• To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

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  Men, Careers, Giving

  "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Part IV : Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions, Appendix, 17, 1677.

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• The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.

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  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

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  Self, Foundation, Virtue

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• Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

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  Art, Freedom, Philosophical

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• He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.

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  Life, Hands, Generosity

  "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Prop. 66, 1677.

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• I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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  God, Faith, Hope

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• Reality and perfection are synonymous.

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  Reality, Perfection

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• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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  Philosophical, Pride, Men

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