Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZAWe feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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