Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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