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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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Reason is no match for passion.
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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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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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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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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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Freedom is self-determination.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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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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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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