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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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• 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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• Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.

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  Taken, Ignorance, Mean

  "The Bold Truth" by Lazima Tutashinda, (p. 266), January 1, 1997.

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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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• 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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• Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

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  Men, Fancy, Fame

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• If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.

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  Life, Hate, Thinking

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

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  Philosophical, Pantheism, Without God

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.18, Commodius Vicus

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• There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.

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  No Fear, No Hope

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• It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.

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  Men, Envy, Human Nature

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• Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

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  Pain, Love Is, Ideas

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

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  Men, Law, Mind

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

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• Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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  Intellect

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.57, Hackett Publishing

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• To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.

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  Ideas, Effort, Mind

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• Desire is the very essence of man

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  Philosophy, Men, Essence

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

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• All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate
  them.

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  Men, Law, Broken

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

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• The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

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  Past, Mind, Body

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.418, Baruch Spinoza

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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.

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  Men, Experience, Would Be

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

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• Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

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  Order, Fixed, Preserves

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• He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

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  Mind, Weakness, Ethics

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrat" by Baruch Spinoza, part III: "On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions", 1677.

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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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• Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

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  Suffering, Emotion, Form

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• Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

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  Life, Hatred, Acting

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

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  Faith, Individuality, Religion

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• If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise man surpasses the ignorant man) seems exceedingly hard, it may nevertheless be discovered. Needs must it be hard, since it is so seldom found. How would it be possible, if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labour be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

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  Wise, Men, Hands

  Ethics pt. 5 (1677) (translation by Edwin Curley)

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