What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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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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Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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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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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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