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Baruch Spinoza

"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."

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"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."

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Amber Hurdle

"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."

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"I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia."

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"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."

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"They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity."

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"Wisdom lies at the edge of intelligence. Joy lies at the edge of happiness. Faith lies at the edge of boldness. Love lies at the edge of kindness. God lies at the edge of righteousness."

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"So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail."

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Amber Hurdle

"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."

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"We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness."

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Amber Hurdle

"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."

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"One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions."

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"Desire is the very essence of man."
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"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."
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"Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature."
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"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
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"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."
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"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
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"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."
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"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself."
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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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