Tag: Baruch Spinoza
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Baruch Spinoza
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch Spinoza
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
Baruch Spinoza
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch Spinoza
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Baruch Spinoza
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza