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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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In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
BARUCH SPINOZA

Compell Follow Life Practical Science Truth
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
Sadness diminishes a man’s powers.
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Broken Heart Depression Diminish Man One Liner Power Sad
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
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Happiness Inspirational One Liner Reward Virtue
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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Different Inspirational Past Present Study
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.
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Action Cause Conscious Detrmination Freedom Ignorance Men Mistake Opinion
Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.
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Desire Mankind Men Reason Rule
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
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
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Genuine Happiness Life Need Want
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
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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Animation Conscious God Mentality Mind Space Time World
All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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Be Yourself Different Excellence Rare
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
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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Attribute Beautiful Beauty Confusion Imagination Nature Relation Ugly
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Eternal Experience Feeling One Liner Ourselves

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