If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. Baruch Spinoza Next Quote The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. - Baruch Spinoza Previous Quote So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it. - Baruch Spinoza