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

Baruch Spinoza · Jealousy

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Baruch Spinoza

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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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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Baruch Spinoza

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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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.

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