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Baruch Spinoza Quote - Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.

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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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Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Bless Goodness Human Nature Thinking Weak
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
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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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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Genuine Happiness Life Need Want
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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Alone Consent Freedom Guidance Reason
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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Fear Hope Life
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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Hard Time Inspirational Understand Weep
Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Foundation Preservation Primary Virtue
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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Absence Benevolence Confidence Justice Mind Peace Virtue War
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Reward Virtue
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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Activity Attain Education Freedom Human Leaening Understand
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.
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Cause Goals Human Imagination Nature View
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue

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