Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe 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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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