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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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• 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.

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  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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• All is One (Nature, God)

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• He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

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  Order, Anxiety, Honor

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• Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another's; but under nature everything belongs to all.

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  Men, Offers

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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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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• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

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  Ignorance, Pride, Self

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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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• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

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  Wisdom, Peace, War

  "Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

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  Vacuums, Speculation

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• Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

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  Men, Religion, Useless

  Baruch Spinoza (2017). “A Theologico-Political Treatise”, Jovian Press

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• We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don

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  Hope, Believe, Men

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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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• The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

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  Thinking, Mind, Three

  "On the Improvement of the Understanding". Book by Baruch Spinoza, 1662.

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• Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned.

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  Mankind, Interest, Consulting

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• God is a thing that thinks.

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  Thinking

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• Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.

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  Desire, Courtesy, Schism

  "The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza" by Benedict de Spinoza, ch. 20, 1670.

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• In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible ; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another.

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  Doe, Impossible, States

  "Political Treatise" by Baruch Spinoza, translated by A. H. Gosset, (Ch. 2), 1883.

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• Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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  Peace, War, Philosophical

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• I call him free who is led solely by reason.

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  Religion, Atheism, Reason

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• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

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  Philosophical, Men, Long

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.219, Commodius Vicus

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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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  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

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• Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

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  Law, Wicked, Criminals

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• Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

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  Men, Desire, Would Be

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Variant translation of Prop. 2: Note, 1677.

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• Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

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  Divine, Particular, All Things

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.33, Commodius Vicus

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