Spinoza

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"The human body is composed of a great number of parts of diverse nature."

"Love is a joy accompanied by the idea of an external cause."

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

"He who despises himself is nonetheless honored by all."

"Freedom is not the absence of necessity, but the understanding of it."

"The more the mind understands all things as necessary, the less it is determined to fear."

"Nature does not proceed by leaps."

"All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare."

"Inadequate ideas are the source of falsehood."

"The mind's power of thinking is limited and infinite in proportion to the number of adequate ideas it has."

"To be free is nothing else than to persevere in one's being."

"Sadness is the transition to a lesser perfection."

"The love of a thing eternal and infinite feeds the mind wholly with joy."

"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner."

"Men are now constituted in such a way that they pity those who live in misery and despise those who live happily."

"The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God."

"Those who have a strong body have the best fortunes."

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

"So long as we imagine that a thing loves us, we shall regard it with a species of love."

"Memory is assisted by orderliness and injured by confusion."

"The individual whose body is capable of the greatest number of simultaneous relations is possessed of the greatest strength of acting."

"Insofar as the mind understands all things as necessary, it has a certain power of affecting the emotions."

"The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the human body."

"Nothing is evil from the point of view of eternity."

"He is free who is led solely by reason."

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind."

"I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind."

"The human body requires a great number and variety of different things."

"Passive emotions are the source of bondage."