No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Reason is no match for passion.
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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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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation 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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