Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
Dutch philosopher
"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
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"I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them."
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"The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak"
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"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward"
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"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
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"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."
