He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
BARUCH SPINOZAHappiness is a virtue, not its reward.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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 endeavor to understand is the first and only basis 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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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