Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZAHe who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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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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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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