Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
[Hope]
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
[Goals]
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse. Harmful are these, and evil.
[Worry]
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
[Intellect]
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