All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
BARUCH SPINOZADesire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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