The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZAReason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
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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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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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Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.
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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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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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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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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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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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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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