"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
-Baruch Spinoza
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"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.“
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"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason."
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"Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand."
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"There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope."
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"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."
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"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
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"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
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