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

Baruch Spinoza

God

Cause

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Baruch Spinoza

Virtue

Reward

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Baruch Spinoza

Ideas

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

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

Baruch Spinoza

Men

World

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Baruch Spinoza

Intellect

Will

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Baruch Spinoza

God

Nothing

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

Baruch Spinoza

Nature

Reason

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Baruch Spinoza

Fear

Hope

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.