All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Desire is the essence of a man.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

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 Quote

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

I call him free who is led solely by reason.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

We feel and know that we are eternal.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
- Baruch Spinoza Quote

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
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Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
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