Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Difficulty

Quotes about: Difficulty

• Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Desire, Would Be

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Variant translation of Prop. 2: Note, 1677.

• We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don

  Baruch Spinoza

  Hope, Believe, Men

• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Desire, Tongue

• The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Overcoming, Faces

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