Quotes About Peace

Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.

If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it.

The sole case of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room

Civil war in man between reason and passions. If there were only reason without passions. If there were only passions without reason. But since he has both he cannot be free from war, for he can only be at peace with the one if he is at war with the other.

Ainsi s'écoule toute la vie ; on cherche le repos en combattant quelques obstacles et si on les a surmontés le repos devient insupportable par l'ennui qu'il engendre. Il en faut sortir et mendier le tumulte.

This internal war of reason against the passions has made a division of those who would have peace into two sects. The first would renounce their passions, and become gods; the others would renounce reason, and become brute beasts. (Des Barreaux.) [157] But neither can do so, and reason still remains, to condemn the vileness and injustice of the passions, and to trouble the repose of those who abandon themselves to them; and the passions keep always alive in those who would renounce them.

So I hold out my arms to my Redeemer, who, having been foretold for four thousand years, has come to suffer and to die for me on earth, at the time and under all the circumstances foretold. By His grace, I await death in peace, in the hope of being eternally united to Him. Yet I live with joy, whether in the prosperity which it pleases Him to bestow upon me, or in the adversity which He sends for my good, and which He has taught me to bear by His example. 737

This is how the whole of our life slips by. We seek repose by battling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome we find rest is unbearable because of the boredom it generates. ... We can't imaging a condition that is pleasant without fun and noise.

VÅ¡etky problémy ?udstva pramenia z neschopnosti ?loveka sedieÃ…Â¥ v miestnosti ticho a sám.

all humanity's problems stem from an inability to sit in a quiet room alone." Johnson, Fenton. At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life (p. 229). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.

All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Les misères de tous les hommes tirent de ne pas être en mesure de s'asseoir dans une pièce calme seul.

Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos dans une chambre.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarreled with him?

Todas las miserias de la humanidad se deben a una sola cosa: a que somos incapaces de estar sentados solos y en silencio en una habitación

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone

J'ay souvent dit, que tout le malheur des hommes vient de ne sçavoir pas se tenir en repos dans une chambre.

Ä°nsanoÄŸlunun tüm mutsuzluÄŸu tek ba??na sessizce bir odada oturamamaktan kaynaklan?r.

we went outside and the night was really still and the stars were like an explosion across the sky.

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

let me forget about today until tomorrow

Be groovy or leave, man

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall..