Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
Man is a social animal.
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More Quotes from Benedict Spinoza
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch another person. When this is done, I feel contact has been made.
Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.
