Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZAIn so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Reason is no match for passion.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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