Spinoza

"The human mind is part of the infinite intellect of God."

"Whatsoever is, is in God, and nothing can exist or be conceived without God."

"Desire is the very essence of man."

"Insofar as the mind understands all things as inevitable, it has a tendency to regard past injuries with equanimity."

"A free man thinks of nothing so little as of death, and his wisdom is a meditation on life, not on death."

"The impotent man, while he remains impotent, is not capable of moderating or checking his desires."

"The struggle for life is the struggle for becoming."

"Blessed is he who possesses a sound body and mind."

"Knowledge of particulars is finite."

"The infinite attribute of God is expressed in infinite ways."

"Virtue and power are one and the same."

"Hatred is sadness with the accompanying idea of an external cause."

"Every individual thing must have a specific cause for its existence."

"Miracles are only miracles to those who are ignorant of natural causes."

"Reason is the highest human faculty."

"The mind can be of such a nature that the part which we have shown to perish with the body is of no account in relation to that which remains."

"Eternity is the very essence of substance."

"A free human being is one who is led by reason alone."

"Sorrow is diminished by the recollection of a greater evil."

"The joyful man tends to desire things that are useful to him."

"Knowledge is power over circumstances and over ourselves."

"In proportion as the mind is stronger in understanding all things necessarily, it has a greater force in moderating the emotions."

"To love is to rejoice in the good of another as one rejoices in one's own."

"Those who have reached the highest degree of human perfection are most distant from the fear of death."

"The more perfect a thing is, the more it is destroyed by external causes."

"No particular thing exists without the universal."

"The mind endeavors to imagine those things by which the power of acting of the body is increased or helped."

"Health and ill-health are primarily relative to the individual body."

"Nature is infinite in its manifestations."

"To understand oneself is the beginning of wisdom."