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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Desire, Courtesy, Schism

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

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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Guidance, Reason

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Realizing, Difficult

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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Nature, Law, Understanding

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

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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Laughing, Understanding

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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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• 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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  War, Tyrants, Evil

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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Nature, Freedom, Animal

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• Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Obedience, Piety

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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Believe, Perfection, Vision

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

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mankind, Interest, Consulting

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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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Believe, Men, People

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• Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

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  Doe, Influence, Effects

  "Ethics". Part I: Concerning God, Prop. 36, 1677.

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

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Slavery, Desolation

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

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• Reality and perfection are synonymous.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Reality, Perfection

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• God and all attributes of God are eternal.

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  God, Attributes, Attributes Of God

  "Ethics". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Prop. 19, 1677.

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• ...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.

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  Body, Way, Anticipation

  Baruch Spinoza (1992). “Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters”, p.114, Hackett Publishing

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• A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.

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  Men, People, Hatred

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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. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Communication, Law, Evil

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by B. Spinoza, ch. 2, Of Natural Right, 1883.

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