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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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• I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

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  Men, Laughing, Understanding

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• The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

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  Men, Overcoming, Faces

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• True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

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  Men, Made, Convenience

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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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• In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows.
  Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

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  Life, Powerful, Men

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.226, Commodius Vicus

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• Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause.

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  Love, Ideas, Joy

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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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• If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

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  Life, Believe, Return

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.128, Commodius Vicus

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• He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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  Philosophical, Guidance, Reason

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• Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.

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  Realizing, Difficult

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• He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.

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  Spring, Law, Luxury

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• Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.

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  Men, Serving

  Baruch Spinoza (2017). “A Theologico-Political Treatise”, p.49, Jovian Press

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• Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.

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  War, Tyrants, Evil

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• Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

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  Obedience, Piety

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• Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

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  Nature, Law, Understanding

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Preface), 1677.

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• Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.

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  Grateful, Men, Free Man

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.221, Commodius Vicus

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• One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

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  Melancholy, Deaf, Realism

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• Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

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  Nature, Freedom, Animal

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• I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.

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  Believe, Perfection, Vision

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Chapter 1, 1670.

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• Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

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  Believe, Men, People

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• Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.

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  Law, Essence, Substance

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• If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

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  Men, Slavery, Desolation

  "Political Treatise" by Baruch Spinoza, translated by A. H. Gosset, (Ch. 6), 1883.

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