Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZAThere can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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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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Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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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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Nothing in nature is by chance. Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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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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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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