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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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Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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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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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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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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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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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 do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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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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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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