Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

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(619 votes)  All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(325 votes)  To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(254 votes)  Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(232 votes)  Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(231 votes)  The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(231 votes)  Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(229 votes)  Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(229 votes)  Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(227 votes)  I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(227 votes)  I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(226 votes)  None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(226 votes)  Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(224 votes)  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 (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(223 votes)  Will and intellect are one and the same.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(222 votes)  The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(221 votes)  Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(220 votes)  We feel and know that we are eternal.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(210 votes)  Desire is the essence of a man.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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