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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 it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it»
«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 those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.»
«Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
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Desire,
Language,
Mankind,
Words
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govern, moderate, moderated, moderating, tongues
«As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human opinions, and merely mean events of which the natural cause cannot be explained by a reference to any ordinary occurren»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
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Miracles
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explained, Human Events, Human Relations, immutable, intelligible, natural causes, natural order, preserves, reference, reference to, relation to
«God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things»
«Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
«Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself»
«The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
«If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
«Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
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