I have made a ceaseless ...

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
 Baruch Spinoza

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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
 Baruch Spinoza
Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.
 Baruch Spinoza
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.
 Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
 Baruch Spinoza
In the mind there is no absolute or free will; but the mind is determined to wish this or that by a cause, which has also been determined by another cause, and this last by another cause, and so on to infinity.
 Baruch Spinoza