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Action Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
- I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
- Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.
- I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
- Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that…
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