Why do you not name Spinoza?
Spinoza's life was admirable. He lived modestly on a few grains of groats and a bit of milk soup. Refusing the chairs that were offered him he always earned his daily bread through manual labor. His moral doctrine is a stoic mysticism. But too exclusively intellectual he professed a strange absolutist politics and in the face of power only reserved the freedom to think. In any case his name puts one in mind more of a great metaphysical power than of a great moral beauty.