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I must at this juncture declare that those doctrines which certain churches put forward concerning Christ, I neither affirm nor deny, for I freely confess that I do not grasp them.

— Baruch Spinoza Theologico-Political Treatise (1677)

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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Nature is satisfied with little; and if she is, I am also.

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All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

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A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.

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If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

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