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Baruch Spinoza Quote - The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
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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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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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God is not He who is, but That which is.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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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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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Nothing in Nature is random. A thing appears random only through the incompleteness of our knowledge.
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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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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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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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