All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Quote by Baruch Spinoza

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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our...

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our...

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Desire is the essence of a man.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a...

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a...

We feel and know that we are eternal

We feel and know that we are eternal

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are...

As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are...

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

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand...

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand...

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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

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

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind,...

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind,...

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

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

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.