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Famous Baruch Spinoza Quotes
“Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.”
“Desire is the very essence of man”
“The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.”
“Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.”
“Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.”
“He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.”
“Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.”
“.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.”
“There is no fear without some hope, and no hope without some fear.”
“Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.”
“Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.”
“The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.”
“Will and intellect are one and the same thing.”
“Everything great is just as difficult to realize as it is rare to find.”
“Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.”
“Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.”
“A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.”