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> [When we love a thing similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring about that it should love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/when-we-love-a-thing-similar-to-ourselves-we-endeavor-as-far-as-we/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/if-we-love-something-similar-to-ourselves-we-endeavor-as-far-as-we/)

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> [He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/he-who-loves-god-cannot-endeavor-that-god-should-love-him-in-return/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/it-is-not-possible-that-we-should-remember-that-we-existed-before-our/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/so-long-as-a-man-imagines-that-he-cannot-do-this-or-that-so-long-as/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/how-would-it-be-possible-if-salvation-were-ready-to-our-hand-and/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/we-can-always-get-along-better-by-reason-and-love-of-truth-than-by/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/nothing-comes-to-pass-in-nature-which-can-be-set-down-to-a-flaw/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/i-should-attempt-to-treat-human-vice-and-folly-geometrically-the/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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> [Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/better-that-right-counsels-be-known-to-enemies-than-that-the-evil/)

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> [As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/as-men-s-habits-of-mind-differ-so-that-some-more-readily-embrace-one/)

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> [everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/everyone-endeavors-as-much-as-possible-to-make-others-love-what-he/)

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> [If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/if-the-way-which-i-have-pointed-out-as-leading-to-this-result-i-e/)

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> [The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/the-safest-way-for-a-state-is-to-lay-down-the-rule-that-religion-is/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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## Other authors on Should

## More by Baruch Spinoza

> [It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/it-is-sure-that-those-are-most-desirous-of-honour-or-glory-who-cry/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/to-know-the-order-of-nature-and-regard-the-universe-as-orderly-is-the/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/if-anyone-conceives-that-he-is-loved-by-another-and-believes-that-he/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/the-world-would-be-happier-if-men-had-the-same-capacity-to-be-silent/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [“So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God—in other words, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/so-they-will-pursue-their-questions-from-cause-to-cause-till-at-last/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/as-men-s-habits-of-mind-differ-so-that-some-more-readily-embrace-one/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/if-a-man-had-begun-to-hate-an-object-of-his-love-so-that-love-is/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/i-make-this-chief-distinction-between-religion-and-superstition-that/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/one-and-the-same-thing-can-at-the-same-time-be-good-bad-and/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/a-good-thing-which-prevents-us-from-enjoying-a-greater-good-is-in/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/but-if-men-would-give-heed-to-the-nature-of-substance-they-would/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/the-more-intelligible-a-thing-is-the-more-easily-it-is-retained-in/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/in-the-state-of-nature-wrong-doing-is-impossible-or-if-anyone-does/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/for-peace-is-not-mere-absence-of-war-but-is-a-virtue-that-springs/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

> [Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/baruch-spinoza/peace-is-not-an-absence-of-war-it-is-a-virtue-a-state-of-mind-a/)

[Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/baruch-spinoza/)

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                        "text": "everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking...",
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