Great Throughts Treasury
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Perek Ha-Shalom
Talmudic Tractate Derekh Eretz Zuta on ethical subject of peacefulness
"Rabban Simeon ben Gamaliel had said: "The world rests on three things: On justice, on truth, on peace." Said Rabbi Mona: "But these are one and the same: For if there is justice, there is truth, and if there is truth, there is peace.""
"Great is peace, for peace is to the world as leaven is to dough. "
"By three things does the world endure: justice, truth, and peace. R. Muna said: The three are one because if justice is done, truth has been effected and peace is brought about. "