The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
BARUCH SPINOZAHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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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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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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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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