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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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Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good

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Men, Law, And Love

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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

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Life, Hate, Hands

Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.24, Open Road Media

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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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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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The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.

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Mind, Perceive, Feigning

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

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Faith, Individuality, Religion

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

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Order, Fixed, Preserves

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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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God is the efficient cause not only of the existence of things, but also of their essence.
Corr. Individual things are nothing but modifications of the attributes of God, or modes by which the attributes of God are expressed in a fixed and definite manner.

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God, Essence, Causes

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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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.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

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Order, Words Of Wisdom, Pantheism

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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.

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Mind, Eternity, Aspect

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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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Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

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Aids, Ceremony, Blessedness

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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.

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Science, Numbers, Imagination

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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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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

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Wise, Men, Atheism

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Born: November 24, 1632
Died: February 21, 1677
Occupation: Philosopher
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