"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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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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Explore more quotes by Baruch Spinoza

"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."

Man

"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."

Nature

"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."

Creativity

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion."

Religion

"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."

Man

"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."

God

"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd."

Nature

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."

Being

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

Nature

"So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it."

Man