Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZAA free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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