Quote by Baruch Spinoza
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character. – Baruch Spinoza

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. – Baruch Spinoza

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Beauty
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. – Baruch Spinoza

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Music
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone. – Baruch Spinoza

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alone
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We can bomb the world to pieces, but we cant bomb it into peace. – Michael Franti

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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. – Dorothy Thompson

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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. – Thomas a Kempis

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Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of mens lives. – David O. McKay

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It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved. – Goran Persson

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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion. – John Burroughs

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