SundayMay 17, 2026
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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself Alone.
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.
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.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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