If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Quote by Baruch Spinoza

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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.

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.

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

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

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

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

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

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

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

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason...

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason...

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where...

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where...

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where...

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where...

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from,...

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from,...

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

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...

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.

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 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.

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.