Baruch Spinoza - The Ethics

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza
Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Baruch Spinoza
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

- Baruch Spinoza - The Ethics