He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.
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More Quotes from Benedict Spinoza
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
Man is a social animal.
Desire is the essence of a man.
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.
Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.
No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
