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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

Baruch Spinoza
Inspirational, Desire

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

Baruch Spinoza
Men, Wish, Desire

Desire is the essence of a man.

Baruch Spinoza
Men, Essence, Desire

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.

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Men, Desire, Would Be
"Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Variant translation of Prop. 2: Note, 1677.

Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.

Baruch Spinoza
Desire, Courtesy, Schism
"The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza" by Benedict de Spinoza, ch. 20, 1670.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

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Men, Desire, Tongue

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

Baruch Spinoza
Desire, Lines, Action
Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.93, Commodius Vicus

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