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Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

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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.

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