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Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Benedict de Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus (1667), Chapter Five, as liberally rendered in A Natural History of Peace (1996) by Thomas Gregor.

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