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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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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. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Desire is the essence of a man. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Desire is the very essence of man. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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