Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
Original text (Latin)
Original text (Latin)
I never cease urging peace, which, however unfair, is better than the justest war in the world.
Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
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