Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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