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• [Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

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  Running, Ignorance, Way

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• Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.

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  Believe, Independent, Writing

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• In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.

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  Mind, Wish, Lasts

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.82, Commodius Vicus

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• What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

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  Life, Happiness, Insightful

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• Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

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  Superstitions

  "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Preface, 1670.

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• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

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  Happiness, Happy, Philosophical

  "On the Improvement of the Understanding". Book by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• Freedom is self-determination.

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  Determination, Self, Self Determination

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• The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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  Philosophical, Firsts, Virtue

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• He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

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  Law, Liberty, Vices

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• True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Virtue

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• Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

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  Needs, Use, Wealth

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• Sadness diminishes a man's powers

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  Sadness, Men, Diminish

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• Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.

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  Integrity, Ethics, Moral Ethics

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• He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

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  Ideas, True And False, Adequate

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• Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

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  Excellent, Difficult

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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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• 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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• Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

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  Littles, Satisfied, Ifs

  "The Story of Philosophy" by Will Durant, (p. 176), 1933.

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• The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

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  Mind, Unions, Whole

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• Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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  Happiness, Happy, Rewards

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• Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

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  Indulge Yourself, Healthy, Pleasure

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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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• He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

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  Return, God Love, Should

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.151, Hackett Publishing

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• The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed along with the body, but something of it remains, which is eternal.

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  Soul, Mind, Body

  Baruch Spinoza (2002). “Spinoza: The Complete Works”, p.374, Hackett Publishing

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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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