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Baruch Spinoza
“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”
Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”
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Baruch Spinoza
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza
“No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.”
Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise

Thomas Merton
“Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and spiritual joy you have not yet begun to live.”
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

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