Tag: Baruch Spinoza
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Baruch Spinoza
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
Baruch Spinoza
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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.
Baruch Spinoza
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Baruch Spinoza
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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.
Baruch Spinoza
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza