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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The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure, you are above everything distressing.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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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 world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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