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Quotation from Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
“PROP. VI. Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavours to persist in its own being”
Ethics, Part III, Prop. VI, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883)
The doctrine of conatus, from which all the emotions are derived.
Citation: "PROP. VI. Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavours to persist in its own being" — Baruch Spinoza, Ethics, Part III, Prop. VI, trans. R. H. M. Elwes (1883). (id ethics-q4)
Portrait: Spinoza Ethica, Unknown, Public domain.
