"Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character."
-Baruch Spinoza
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"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.“
-Baruch Spinoza
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