We feel and know that we are eternal.

Quote by Baruch Spinoza

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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...

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...

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

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...

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

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

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...

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more...

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more...

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,...

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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...

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Desire is the essence of a man.

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

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

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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.