Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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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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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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