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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.

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Baruch Spinoza's Popular Quotes

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

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Whatsoever is, is in God.

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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

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God is not He who is, but That which is.

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To understand something is to be delivered of it.

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

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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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All is One (Nature, God)

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

- Baruch Spinoza
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