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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza
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Baruch Spinoza
Age: 44 †
Born: 1632
Born: November 24
Died: 1677
Died: February 21
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In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
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No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
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How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.
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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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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
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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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God is a thing that thinks.
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I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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