Baruch Spinoza - Love Quotes

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Simply from the fact that we have regarded a thing with the emotion of pleasure or pain, though that thing be not the efficient cause of the emotion, we can either love or hate it.

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Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

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But love for an object eternal and infinite feeds the mind with joy alone, and a joy which is free from all sorrow. This is something greatly to be desired and to be sought with all our strength.

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He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

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Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love.

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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.

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He who hates anyone will endeavor to do him an injury, unless he fears that a greater injury will thereby accrue to himself; on the other hand, he who loves anyone will, by the same law, seek to benefit him.

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When we love a thing similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring about that it should love us in return.

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Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

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If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

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Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

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Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it...

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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

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