What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZAPride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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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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