Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
BARUCH SPINOZANature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.
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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Nature offers nothing that can be called this man’s rather than another’s; but under nature everything belongs to all.
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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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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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There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
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We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.
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Self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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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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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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