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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

#hate #human #human actions #i #laugh

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

#benevolence #confidence #disposition #justice #mere

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#abject #ambitious #believed #envious #humble

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#reward #virtue

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

— Baruch Spinoza

#conception #evil #form #free #good

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 Spinoza

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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself. ↗

— 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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Will and intellect are one and the same thing. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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