Desire is the essence of a man.

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• Baruch Spinoza:

  Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please t

• Baruch Spinoza:

  None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

• Baruch Spinoza:

  Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

• Baruch Spinoza:

  Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

• Baruch Spinoza:

  The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

• Baruch Spinoza:

  We feel and know that we are eternal.

• Baruch Spinoza:

  Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its

• Baruch Spinoza:

  Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

• Baruch Spinoza:

  Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

• Baruch Spinoza:

  If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and ev