Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

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The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Parents are never as bad as kids think they are.

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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

—Woodrow Wilson

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

—William Shakespeare

That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

—W. Somerset Maugham

Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.

—W. Somerset Maugham

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

—Thomas Jefferson

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