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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Be Different Different Past Present Study Want You

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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: All Things Difficult Excellent Rare Things

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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Indignant Understand Wax Weep

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

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Activity Attain Because Being Free Highest Human Human Being Learning Understand Understanding

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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Become Come Easily He Himself Imagine Man May Nuisance Pass Pleasing Proud Reality Universal Vain

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Cannot Fear Hope Nor Without

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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Ambition Desire Power

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

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Actions Hate Human Human Actions Laugh Nor Them Understand Weep

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

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Attached Depends Happiness Love Object Quality Solely Unhappiness Which

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

~Baruch Spinoza

Topics: Be The First First Flattery More None Proud Taken Than Who Wish

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Philosopher

Born: November 24th, 1632

Died: February 21st, 1677

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