Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Quote by Baruch Spinoza
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Baruch Spinoza Quotes
- Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
- To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
- I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
- He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
- I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
- Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
- 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.
- 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.
- Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Best Quotes
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