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Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Dutch - Philosopher | November 24, 1632 - February 21, 1677

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Difficult Rare Things Excellent

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

Past Present Be Different You Want

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Motivational Understand Wax Weep

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Power Man Society Care Reach Poor

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

Learning Free Understanding Human

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Confidence Justice Peace War Mind

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Ignorance Pride Self Greatest

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Effort Understand Human Actions Made

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Alone Free Reason Guidance Consent

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Power Ambition Desire

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Nature Alone Free Determined Own

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

Proud Wish Flattery More First Who

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