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“Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.”
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“But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
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“If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.”
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“Pride, therefore, is pleasure springing from a man thinking too highly of himself.”
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“there is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
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“Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.”
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“None are more readily taken with flattery than the proud, who wish to be first, but are not.”
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“God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.”
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“Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage: for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is...”
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“Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.”
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“For instance, men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are conditioned.”
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“Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.”
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“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.”
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“The effort for self-preservation is the first and only foundation of virtue.”
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“The highest endeavour of the mind, and the highest virtue is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge.”
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“The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God.”
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“There is no cause from whose nature some effect does not follow.”
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“Things which are accidentally the causes of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.”
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“But, notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.”
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“For, so long as he conceives that he cannot do it, so long is he not determined to do it, and consequently so long is it impossible for him to do it.”
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“By God, I mean a being absolutely infinite—that is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.”
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“The free man, who lives among the ignorant, strives, as far as he can, to avoid receiving favours from them.”
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“Assuredly nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition.”
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“Desire arising from pleasure is, other conditions being equal, stronger than desire arising from pain.”
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