All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BARUCH SPINOZAPeace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of 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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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