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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Offers

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

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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Return, Should

  "The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings".

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  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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• 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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Peace, War

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

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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Religion, Useless

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

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• Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

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  Truth, Knowledge, Errors

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• Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

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  Vacuums, Speculation

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  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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• God is a thing that thinks.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

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  Mind, Emotion, Subjects

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• In the mind there is no absolute or free will.

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  Mind, Free Will, Determinism

  Baruch Spinoza (2002). “Spinoza: The Complete Works”, p.272, Hackett Publishing

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• Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

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  Lying, Men, Names

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.163, Commodius Vicus

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• Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

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  Ignorance, Men, Thinking

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.70, Commodius Vicus

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Religion, Atheism, Reason

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• Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

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  Rewards, Virtue, Blessedness

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

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