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• 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.

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  Men, Careers, Giving

  "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Part IV : Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions, Appendix, 17, 1677.

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• Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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  Happiness, Philosophical, Acceptance

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• We feel and know that we are eternal.

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  Philosophical, Awareness, Immortality

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “The Road to Inner Freedom: The Ethics”, p.76, Open Road Media

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• the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

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  Men, Liberty, May

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• Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

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  Humble, Humility, Ambitious

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• Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

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  School, Men, Historical

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• I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

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  Mind, Saws, All Things

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• He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully

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  Revenge, Mean, Fighting

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• Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

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  Men, Wish, Desire

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• Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as it can, to continue to move. Such a stone, being conscious merely of its own endeavor and not at all indifferent, would believe itself to be completely free, and would think that it continued in motion solely because of its own wish. This is that human freedom, which all boast that they possess, and which consists solely in the fact, that men are conscious of their own desire, but are ignorant of the causes whereby that desire has been determined.

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  Believe, Moving, Men

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• Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

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  Art, Freedom, Philosophical

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• The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.

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  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

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  Views, Goal, Finals

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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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• Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking.

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  Hate, Ambition, Thinking

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• Desire is the essence of a man.

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  Men, Essence, Desire

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• I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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  God, Faith, Hope

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• self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

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  Self, Foundation, Virtue

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• A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

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  Life, Men, Thinking

  1677 Ethics, bk.4, prop.67.

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• A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

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  Evil, Good Things, Enjoy

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• Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules.

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  Nature, Law, Understanding

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Preface), 1677.

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• Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, (Definition 13: Explanation), 1677.

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• The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.

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  Real, Liberty, Judgment

  "Theological-Political Treatise". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Ch. 20, That In a Free State Every Man May Think What He Likes, and Say What He Thinks, 1670.

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• I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.

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  Believe, Circles, Atheism

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• Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

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  Pride, Self, Reason

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