Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

(59 votes)   For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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(14 votes)   Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

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(225 votes)   To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(190 votes)   Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

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(97 votes)   Desire is the very essence of man.

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(96 votes)   Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

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(94 votes)   All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

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(92 votes)   God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

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(92 votes)   If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

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(92 votes)   True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

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(91 votes)   Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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(86 votes)   Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian

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(59 votes)   All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

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(55 votes)   Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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(54 votes)   Desire is the essence of a man.

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