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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.
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Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.
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A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.
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Let unswerving integrity be your watchword.
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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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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The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.
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Reality and perfection are synonymous.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.
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The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.
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I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
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