Are we prepared to lose a major city every year? ... It's cowardice not to ask the question and cowardice on the public's part not to get engaged in the answer.


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BARUCH SPINOZA
The superstitious, who know how to reprove vices rather than how to teach virtues, and who strive, n...
BARUCH SPINOZA
No reason compels me to maintain that the body does not die unless it is changed into a corpse. And,...
BARUCH SPINOZA
Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself.
BARUCH SPINOZA
The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach the...
BARUCH SPINOZA
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but o...
BARUCH SPINOZA
We feel and experience ourselves to be eternal.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture o...
BARUCH SPINOZA
It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food...
BARUCH SPINOZA
I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy,...
BARUCH SPINOZA
Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
BARUCH SPINOZA
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are c...
BARUCH SPINOZA
Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will at...
BARUCH SPINOZA
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, conf...
BARUCH SPINOZA
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Desire is the very essence of man.
BARUCH SPINOZA
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; ...
BARUCH SPINOZA
Desire is the essence of a man.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
BARUCH SPINOZA
True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
BARUCH SPINOZA
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BARUCH SPINOZA
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
BERNARD M. BARUCH
Two things are bad for the heart-running up stairs and running down people. -Bernard M. Baruch.
BERNARD M. BARUCH
Whatever task that you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be ...
BERNARD M. BARUCH
There are no such things as incurables; there are only things for which man has not found a cure.
BERNARD M. BARUCH