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

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Baruch Spinoza

Man

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

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

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

Baruch Spinoza

First

Flattery

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature

Actions

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

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.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Baruch Spinoza

Sin

State