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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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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.
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