The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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Reason is no match for passion.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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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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Freedom is self-determination.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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