Quotes About Peace

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

"Let your occupations be few," says the sage,"if you would lead a tranquil life."

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

I have only one piece of advice for what it's worth: if you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.

Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum — Flavius Vegetius Renatus, fourth century).

if you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.

Let us never yield to those who believe political power flows from the barrel of a gun, to

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise.

What is more agreeable than one's home?

Laws are silent in time of war.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Hatred is settled anger.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

War is what happens when language fails.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

She is one of those people who have found serenity because they have never tried to dodge suffering.

By which we may see, that Novelty discomposes the mind, but acquaintance settles it in peace and tranquillity.

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

Already the rain had become an element of life like the air Mark breathed, and when it stopped, he missed it somehow, and found himself listening for the drip, drip, drip that seemed now a necessary and comforting component of his life.

Im just as human as you. But its no use asking me for a final statement. As I say, I deal in tactics. Also statistics: for every year of peace there have been four hundred years of war.