What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
More Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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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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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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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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