He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZAPeace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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