Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoz
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Desire is the essence of a man.
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
We feel and know that we are eternal.
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