Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
From Baruch Spinoza
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
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