Benedict de Spinoza

Quotes by Benedict de Spinoza

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

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• We feel and know that we are eternal.

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

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• An emotion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea of it.

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

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• Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues ...

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• The most tyrannical governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

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