True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
More Quotes from Baruch Spinoza:
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
Desire is the very essence of man.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch Spinoza
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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