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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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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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To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.
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Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.
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If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.
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It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those who fare well.
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I call him free who is led solely by reason.
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