Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.


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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
THORNTON WILDER
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home
THORNTON WILDER
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Avarice, envy, pride. Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and th...
BLACK KETTLE
Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Honourable peace becomes men, fierce anger should belong to beasts.
UNKNOWN
They made peace between us; we embraced, and we have been mortal enemies ever since.
ALAIN LESAGE
They made peace between us; we embraced, and we have been mortal enemies ever since.
ALAIN RENE LESAGE
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AMIT RAY
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HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition...
JOHN ADAMS
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ABDEL AZIZ RANTISSI
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
My ambition is peace and perfection.
DEFOREST KELLEY
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SUZY KASSEM
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BRETT BIAGGIO
Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
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MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH
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JOHN FOSTER DULLES
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
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STACY LONDON
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HOLLY HOOD
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JANICE ANDERSON
May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in...
VIRCHAND GANDHI
May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; may peace rule in states and in...
VIRCHAND GANDHI (1864-1901)
May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; may peace rule in states and in...
VIRCHAND GANDHI
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SRI CHINMOY
When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.
BIBLE
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PATIENCE JOHNSON
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
YITZHAK RABIN
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HENRY GEORGE
Why is it considered so glorious to kill an enemy, when it is not considered contemptible to create ...
ANNE E.G. NYDAM
If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.
JOHN RUSSELL
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CHARLES SPURGEON
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
ST. THERESA OF LISIEUX
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
THERESE OF LISIEUX
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JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE
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LATIKA TEOTIA
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for pe...
EDMUND PENDLETON
Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. [It., Superbia, invidia ...
DANTE ("DANTE ALIGHIERI")
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or u...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
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DALAI LAMA
As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happi...
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Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more...
ETTY HILLESUM
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more...
ETTY HILSUM
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
MOSHE DAYAN
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
MOSHE DAYAN
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
MOSHE DAYAN
If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
DESMOND TUTU
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DANE COOK
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YITZHAK RABIN
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
OVID
Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will ne...
GESHE KELSANG GYATSO
It’s vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want...
JOEL OSTEEN
Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary...
ARTHUR C. BROOKS
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THOMAS MERTON
He who has conquered his internal enemies, to such an Arihant, I bow down to them. Learn to recogniz...
DADA BHAGWAN
For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.
THE TALMUD
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ADOLF HITLER
World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it
PEACE PILGRIM
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
PROVERB
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
TURKISH PROVERB
If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb
TURKISH PROVERB
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
GEORGE GROSZ
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BLACK KETTLE
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F. W. DE KLERK
Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.
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Enjoy the peace of Nature and declutter your inner world.
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YAHYA JAMMEH
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VISHWAS CHAVAN
If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for p...
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Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for ...
CORAZON AQUINO
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for p...
CORAZON AQUINO
I am at peace with myself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
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UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
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JOHN LEWIS
We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be gre...
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TOBA BETA
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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CORAZON AQUINO
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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
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SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
PETER MCWILLIAMS
If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.
WILL ROGERS
I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had...
T. SCOTT MCLEOD
When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.
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