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Them Quotes by Baruch Spinoza
- Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
- He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.
- Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them…
- Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them…
- 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…
- 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.
- Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on…
- He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot…
- I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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