Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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