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• Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

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  Views, Goal, Finals

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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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• To understand something is to be delivered of it.

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

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  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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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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• Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking.

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  Hate, Ambition, Thinking

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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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• No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

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  Laughing, Detest, Lament

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• The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

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  Mind, Unions, Whole

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• I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

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  Philosophical, Passion, Emotion

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

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  Pride, Self, Reason

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

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  Self, Foundation, Virtue

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

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  Philosophical, Pride, Men

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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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• After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.

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  Real, Discovery, Mind

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “How to Improve Your Mind”, p.8, Open Road Media

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