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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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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. – Baruch Spinoza

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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? – Mary Douglas

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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it. – Honore de Balzac

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