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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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• A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

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  Miracle, Causes, Narrators

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

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  Realizing, Difficult

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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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• Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained.

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  God, Order, Different

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.49, Baruch Spinoza

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

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  Obedience, Piety

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Reality and perfection are synonymous.

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  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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• 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.

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  Communication, Law, Evil

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

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