The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
More Quotes from Baruch Spinoza:
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.Baruch Spinoza
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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