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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.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Attachment Happiness Love Object Quality Unhappy
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
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Cease Clear Emotion Picture Suffering
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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Crime Government Opinion Thought
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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Desire Difficult Men Moderation Tongue Words
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
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Action Cease Effort Human Understand
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves
Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Arise Himself Man Pleasure Pride Thinking
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
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Ansurd Black Lives Matter Equality Seek
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Endeavor Understand Virtue
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
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Emotion Man Master Prey
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Capacity Happiness Men Silence Speak World
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
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Life Matter Philosophy Situation Slice Thin
The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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Clear Emotion Lover Understand
In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Aspect Eternal Eternity Mind Participate See

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