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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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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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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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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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