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• I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mind, Saws, All Things

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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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• Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Law, And Love

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• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

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  Philosophical, Taken, Wish

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• Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].

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  Law, Broken, Laughing

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• The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Real, Liberty, Judgment

  "Theological-Political Treatise". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Ch. 20, That In a Free State Every Man May Think What He Likes, and Say What He Thinks, 1670.

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• The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form from the comparison of things one with another. Thus one and the same thing can be at the same time good, bad, and indifferent. For instance, music is good for him that is melancholy, bad for him that mourns; for him that is deaf; it is neither good nor bad.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Gratitude, Thinking, Quality

  Baruch Spinoza “Ethics”, Lulu.com

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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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• 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 more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

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  Memories, Forget, Forget It

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• Everyone has as much right as he has might.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Might

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• All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

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  Inspirational, Perfection, Excellence

  Ethics pt. 5 (1677) (translation by Edwin Curley)

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• Whatsoever is, is in God.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.22, Baruch Spinoza

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• All is One (Nature, God)

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• . . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

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  Order, Mind, Function

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• Desire is the essence of a man.

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  Men, Essence, Desire

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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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  Men, Long, Determined

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• God is a thing that thinks.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Thinking

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• The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

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  Mind, Perceive, Feigning

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• Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

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  Blessed, Thinking, Weak

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• Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

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  Justice, Diversity, Care

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• Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.

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  Flow, Causes, Effects

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• If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

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  Life, Return, Should

  "The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings".

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• Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

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  Lust, Delight, Rewards

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• We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness.

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  Communication, Sadness, Joy

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