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

Quote by Baruch Spinoza

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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine...

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine...

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor...

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor...

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor...

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor...

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn...

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn...

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,...

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the...

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the...

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that...

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that...

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no...

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no...

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

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

We feel and know that we are eternal

We feel and know that we are eternal

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

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent,...

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent,...

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Desire is the essence of a man.