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Far Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
- All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control…
- Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.
- Men will find that they can ... avoid far more easily the perils which beset them on all sides by united action.
- Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or…
- Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more…
- 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…
- In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
- Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as…
- When we love a thing similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring about that it should love us in return.
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