The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
BARUCH SPINOZAThe endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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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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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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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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The mind of God is all the mentality that is scattered over space and time, the diffused consciousness that animates the world.
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