Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZAEmotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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