23 Quotations by Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
- 1. All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
- 2. An emotion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it.
- 3. Desire is the essence of a man.
- 4. Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
- 5. Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
- 6. Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please th ...
- 7. Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
- 8. I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understa ...
- 9. I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. O ...
- 10. Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than ...
- 11. Men who are governed by reason desire for themselves nothing which they do not also desire for the r ...
- 12. Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.
- 13. None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
- 14. Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its ...
- 15. Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf ...
- 16. Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
- 17. The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i ...
- 18. There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
- 19. Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
- 20. To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is in ...
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