Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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 world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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