Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger_ they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor_ They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
The Agricola and The Germania
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They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger_ they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor_ They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.
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