Baruch Spinoza Quotes About Virtue
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
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The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
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Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.
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The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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self-preservation is the primary and only foundation of virtue.
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