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Livy, formally Titus Livius, aka Titus Livy NULL
Better a certain peace than a hoped for victory.
Maurice Maeterlinck, fully Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck
To look fearlessly upon life; to accept the laws of nature, not with meek resignation, but as her sons, who dare to search and question; to have peace and confidence within our souls - these are the beliefs that make for happiness.
Confidence | Life | Life | Nature | Peace | Question | Resignation | Search | Wisdom |
For as long as a time as we can see into the future, we shall be living between war and peace, between a war that cannot be fought and a peace that cannot be achieved. The great issues which divide the world cannot be decided by a war that could be won, and they cannot be settled by a treaty that can be negotiated... the power which used to deal with the division and conflicts of the past, namely, organized war, has become an impossible instrument to use.
Future | Past | Peace | Power | Time | War | Wisdom | World |
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self - this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.
It is a shallow victory which leaves a prostrate people.
Niccolò Machiavelli, formally Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.
There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: the increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.
Experiment | Knowledge | Peace | Wisdom | World |
Solitude is important to man. It is necessary to his achievement of peace and contentment. It is a well into which he dips for refreshment for his soul. It is his laboratory in which he distills the pure essence of worth from the raw materials of his experiences. It is his refuge when the very foundations of his life are being shaken by disastrous events.
Achievement | Contentment | Events | Important | Life | Life | Man | Peace | Solitude | Soul | Wisdom | Worth |
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
A victory is no victory unless it put an end to the war.
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
It takes a lot of self-love and presumption to have such esteem for one’s own opinions that to establish them one must overthrow the public peace and introduce so many inevitable evils, and such a horrible corruption of morals, as civil wars and political changes bring with them in a matter of such weight - and introduce them into one’s own country.
Corruption | Esteem | Inevitable | Love | Peace | Presumption | Public | Self | Self-love | Wisdom |
Lester Pearson, fully Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies.
Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle and we knew that victory for mankind depended upon our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.
Battle | Bravery | Duty | Mankind | Office | Rank | Skill | Strength | Will | Wisdom | World |
Peace is a value which man has always sought: Peace among the nations, peace among men, but most of all peace of mind. While man has sought peace external to himself, he may have overlooked the fact that the peace that will influence all living things will be the peace that is first discovered within himself.
Influence | Man | Men | Mind | Nations | Peace | Will | Wisdom | Value |