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Danh ngôn của Baruch Spinoza (Sứ mệnh: 9)

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
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.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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.
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.
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.