Quote by Baruch Spinoza
Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually mo

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. – Baruch Spinoza

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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. – Baruch Spinoza

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It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. – Lawrence Durrell, Justine, 1957

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. – George Bernard Shaw

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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. – George Washington

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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. – Francoise Sagan

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