You write that "He very much embodied the ethic philosophy he put forth in his Ethics." You also added that Spinoza "… was known to embody and practice his ethical prescriptions…." However, Spinoza’s book, entitled Ethics, contains no ethics. According to Spinoza, there is no good or evil. As a result, for Spinoza, there cannot be any ethics.  Refer to Ethics, Part IV, Proposition 37, Scholium 2. There, he wrote: "…there is in the state of nature nothing which by universal consent is pronounced good or bad; for in the state of nature everyone thinks solely of his own advantage, and according to his disposition, with reference only to his individual advantage, decides what is good or bad, being bound by no law to anyone besides himself."  Lestrade