Top 47 Quotes by Baruch Spinoza

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

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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.

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 have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

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

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

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