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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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• According as each has been educated, so he repents of or glories in his actions.

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  Action, Glory, Educated

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• The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.

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  Order, Ideas, Connections

  Baruch Spinoza (1992). “Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters”, p.203, Hackett Publishing

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• The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.

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  Thinking, Littles, Ordinary

  "Theological-Political Treatise". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Ch. 1, Of Prophecy, 1670.

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• All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of menб that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

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  Passion, Men, Law

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

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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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• .... 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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• In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.

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  Our Actions, Guidance, Reason

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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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• Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic.

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  Intelligent, Miracle, Atheism

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.63, Baruch Spinoza

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• The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

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  Government, Freedom Of Speech, Sound

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus" by Baruch Spinoza, (Ch. 20), 1677.

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• True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.

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  Gratitude, Real, Views

  Baruch Spinoza (2015). “Ethics”, p.361, Baruch Spinoza

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• Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

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  Common, Sin, Natural

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• Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

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  Aids, Ceremony, Blessedness

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• As though God had turned away from the wise, and written his decrees, not in the mind of man but in the entrails of beasts, or left them to be proclaimed by the inspiration and instinct of fools, madmen, and birds. Such is the unreason to which terror can drive mankind!

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  Wise, Inspiration, Men

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Preface, 1677.

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• The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity and justice, and that the rights of rulers in sacred, no less than in secular matters, should merely have to do with actions, but that every man should think what he likes and say what he thinks.

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  Exercise, Men, Thinking

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus" by Baruch Spinoza, ch. 20, 1677.

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• Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

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  Mind, Body, Limits

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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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• Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.

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  Men, Sides, Cooperation

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• But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.

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  Reality, Men, Giving

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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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• I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

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  Ignorance, Superstitions, Latter

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “Letters to Friend and Foe”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor 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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  Men, Hands, Excellent

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

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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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• It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

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  Body, Bears, Remember

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.252, Commodius Vicus

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