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I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Baruch Spinoza
Philosophical, Passion, Emotion

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of menŠ± that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

Baruch Spinoza
Passion, Men, Law
"Tractatus Politicus (TP)". Political paper by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

Philosophers conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious.

Baruch Spinoza
Fall, Passion, Men
"Political Treatise" by Baruch Spinoza, translated by A. H. Gosset, (Ch. 1), 1883.

I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.

Baruch Spinoza
Passion, Envy, Hatred

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