Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZAAll happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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