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"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."

Epictetus on Peace

More quotes about Peace

• "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

  Jimi Hendrix on Peace

• "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Peace

• "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

  Mother Teresa on Peace

• "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Peace

• "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."

  John Lennon on Peace

More quotes by Epictetus

• "We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free."

• "When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."

• "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

• "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

• "First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."